Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 6 August 2007Baselayout-2 Plans for Stabilization The first release condidate for the 2.0 branch of baselayout has been added to the tree without any keywords and in package.mask. The arch teams will keyword 2.0.0_rc1 to indicate they are ready for it to move to ~arch. When all keywords have been re-applied, the team will then remove it from package.mask. Now is a very good time to test the new baselayout version and report any last minute bugs! UPGRADE NOTES:
"Excuse me, are YOU the tooth fairy?" -Christian Heim, aka phreak
This week's developer of the week is 24 year old Christian Heim, known as phreak. He lives in Negast, near Stralsund, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Christian lives with his parents and younger brother along with their three cats. Christian started an apprenticeship with the local university in 2002 and has worked at the University of Greifswald as an IT Specialist since then. His typical day involves, as he puts it, the usual mayhem ... looking at some provisioning, breaking some central Windows/SLES boxes, and messing around with his trainees. When Christian isn't at work or working on Gentoo, he's off enjoying a variety of other interests. He especially enjoys driving his new Renault Megane. He loves to watch movies and has a collection of over 500 DVDs. His favorite movie is SWAT, though Transformers is a close runner up. Christian loves to listen to music, especially while he's working on Gentoo. Some of his favorites are Korn, Limp Bizkit, Rammstein, and Tiesto. He admits to not vacationing much in recent years, but said that he would love to go on a Sahara transition (trekking around the desert) or even just a couple of weeks on an island in the South Pacific. When asked what his most unusual hobby was, without hesitation he responded "Nordic walking." As with many developers, Christian was looking for something more customizable than the other Linux flavors and basically stumbled upon Gentoo. He said that what he likes best about using Gentoo is that it is so easy to "write" new "packages" (ebuilds) and that it makes him happy every time he has to write something new up. Christian was looking at linux-vserver and Benedikt Boehm encouraged him to join and help with maintaining ebuilds. In August of 2005, phreak was unleashed as a Gentoo developer. Christian currently contributes to a variety of Gentoo projects. He works with Release Engineering as the Gentoo Hardened Liaison, on the Virtual Private Server team, the Apache team, the Hardened team, the Kernel team, and on the Developer Relations team. Christian's home computers consist of an Athlon-XP 3000 workstation and his Pentium-M notebook, both of which are running Hardened Gentoo. When he settles down for some serious computing, his first applications to launch are kmail, konsole, and amarok. Gentoo Linux - Die Metadistribution "Gentoo Linux - Die Metadistribution" is the first book on Gentoo Linux published in the German language and is written by Gentoo's very own Tobias Scherbaum. This book helps one get started with the Gentoo Distribution and escorts them from an installation, followed by an introduction to Gentoo's package manager, to installation and configuration of a Gentoo Desktop-System. It's mainly focused on configuration and work with Gentoo's package manager, Portage. When asked what prompted the book, Gentoo developer and author Tobias Scherbaum stated, "At several events where we represented Gentoo, a lot of visitors asked about a book on Gentoo. Therefore it is not surprising that the first considerations about this book goes back until 2004". "Gentoo Linux - Die Metadistribution" covers about 270 pages and is published by MITP. It is available in bookstores at the price of 29,95 EURO. The price includes a donation to the Förderverein Gentoo e.V. / Friends of Gentoo e.V.. More information about the book can be found on the Publisher's website. The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
Gentoo Security is on hiatus this week due to no GLSAs being released. 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.
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 29 July 2007 and 04 August 2007, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 9924 currently open bugs: 11 are labeled 'blocker', 97 are labeled 'critical', and 348 are labeled 'major'. The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period are:
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during this period are:
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