Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 9 July 2007

1. Gentoo developer moves

Moves

The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:

none this week

Adds

The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:

Santiago M. Mola (coldwind) VoIP team
Tobias Heinlein (keytoaster) German Documentation team

Changes

The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:

none this week

2. Gentoo security

OpenOffice.org: Two buffer overflows

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenOffice.org, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement

Evolution: User-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code

The IMAP client of Evolution contains a vulnerability potentially leading to the execution of arbitrary code.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement

GNU C Library: Integer overflow

An integer overflow in the dynamic loader, ld.so, could result in the execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges.

For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement

Webmin, Usermin: Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

Webmin and Usermin are vulnerable to cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (XSS).

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:

Package:	Removal date:	Contact:
games-action/raptor2	03 Jul 2007	Tristan Heaven
games-fps/unreal-tournament-infiltration	06 Jul 2007	Michael Sterrett
media-sound/pymp	07 Jul 2007	Samuli Suominen
net-libs/soup	07 Jul 2007	Samuli Suominen

Additions:

Package:	Addition date:	Contact:
sys-fs/python-fuse	02 Jul 2007	Josh Glover
dev-java/jflex	02 Jul 2007	Alistair Bush
app-emacs/doxymacs	02 Jul 2007	Christian Faulhammer
x11-plugins/pidgin-libnotify	03 Jul 2007	Olivier Crete
dev-dotnet/mcatalog	03 Jul 2007	Jurek Bartuszek
dev-java/xml-writer	03 Jul 2007	Petteri Räty
app-emacs/autoconf-mode	04 Jul 2007	Ulrich Müller
dev-java/stax	04 Jul 2007	Petteri Räty
media-gfx/grub-splashes	05 Jul 2007	Peter Weller
games-arcade/ultrastar-ng	06 Jul 2007	Alfredo Tupone
app-emacs/po-mode	06 Jul 2007	Ulrich Müller
app-i18n/uim-tomoe-gtk	07 Jul 2007	Matsuu Takuto
x11-misc/superswitcher	07 Jul 2007	Sven Wegener
sec-policy/selinux-munin	07 Jul 2007	Petre Rodan
sec-policy/selinux-lpd	07 Jul 2007	Petre Rodan
sec-policy/selinux-cups	07 Jul 2007	Petre Rodan
media-video/pymp	07 Jul 2007	Samuli Suominen
x11-themes/polyester	07 Jul 2007	Tobias Heinlein
sys-apps/mlocate	08 Jul 2007	Christian Faulhammer
dev-python/python-daap	08 Jul 2007	Samuli Suominen
dev-haskell/filepath	08 Jul 2007	Duncan Coutts
app-misc/pwsafe	08 Jul 2007	Tavis Ormandy

Last Rites:

Note: Due to this edition being published late, the Last Rites section will not be included.

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 02 July 2007 and 08 July 2007, activity on the site has resulted in:

437 new bugs during this period
290 bugs closed or resolved during this period
22 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
88 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this period
62 bugs marked as duplicates during this period

Of the 9878 currently open bugs: 11 are labeled 'blocker', 107 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 27 closed bugs
Python Gentoo Team, with 15 closed bugs
Mirror Admins, with 14 closed bugs
Gentoo Games, with 10 closed bugs
Gentoo KDE team, with 8 closed bugs
Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team, with 8 closed bugs
GNU Emacs Herd, with 8 closed bugs
Gentoo/BSD Team, with 7 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
Professiona Audio Applications Maintainers, with 7 new bugs
Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages, with 7 new bugs
Shyam Mani, with 6 new bugs
AMD64 Project, with 6 new bugs
Java team, with 5 new bugs
Gentoo TreeCleaner Project, with 4 new bugs
Gentoo Sound Team, with 4 new bugs

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Updated July 9, 2007

Summary: This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 9 July 2007.

Chris Gianelloni
Editor

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