Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 25 June 2007

1.  Gentoo developer moves

Moves

The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:

• Marco Mascherpa (m.mascherpa)

Adds

The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:

• none this week

Changes

The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:

• none this week

2.  Gentoo security

Mozilla products: Multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and XULRunner, some of which may allow user-assisted arbitrary remote code execution.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement

PHProjekt: Multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHProjekt, allowing for the execution of arbitrary PHP and SQL code, and cross-site scripting attacks.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement

3.  Gentoo package moves

This section lists packages that have either been moved or added to the tree and packages that have had their "last rites" announcement given to be removed in the future. The package removals come from many locations, including the Treecleaners and various developers. Most packages which are listed under the Last Rites section are in need of some love and care and can remain in the tree if proper maintainership is established.

Removals:

Additions:

Last Rites:

4.  Bugzilla

Summary

• Statistics
• Closed bug ranking
• New bug rankings

Statistics

The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 18 June 2007 and 24 June 2007, activity on the site has resulted in:

• 406 new bugs during this period
• 279 bugs closed or resolved during this period
• 10 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
• 75 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this period
• 73 bugs marked as duplicates during this period

Of the 9880 currently open bugs: 11 are labeled 'blocker', 108 are labeled 'critical', and 355 are labeled 'major'.

Closed bug rankings

The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period are:

• Gentoo's Team for Core System packages, with 14 closed bugs
• AMD64 Project, with 14 closed bugs
• Gentoo KDE team, with 12 closed bugs
• GNU Emacs Herd, with 8 closed bugs
• Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers, with 7 closed bugs
• Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team, with 7 closed bugs
• dotnet AT gentoo DOT org, with 7 closed bugs
• Gentoo Sound Team, with 6 closed bugs

New bug rankings

The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during this period are:

• Default Assignee for New Packages, with 16 new bugs
• Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers, with 3 new bugs
• Mozilla Gentoo Team, with 3 new bugs
• mips team, with 3 new bugs
• Gentoo's Team for Core System packages, with 3 new bugs
• Gentoo Web Application Packages Maintainers, with 2 new bugs
• Gentoo Science Related Packages, with 2 new bugs
• Gentoo Science Mathematics related packages, with 2 new bugs

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