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X.Org: "A Wasteland of Unreviewedness" (Phoronix)
Michael Larabel at Phoronix explores how the X.org developer community is grappling with its patch-review process. ""David Airlie commented on the developers' mailing list about the lack of patch review for the new API patches, he wonders how he's 'going to get the next 50 patches in at this rate some time this year.' Alan Coopersmith then responded with how there seems to be a harder time overall in getting patch reviews done. Coopersmith says, 'I've got no ideas how to fix this quickly, but we need to get it fixed.'"
A scientific basis for Open Source Software
Martin Davis of the JTS Topology Suite project points readers to an article in Nature arguing that open source software should be a standard requirement for peer-reviewed science. "The paper raises the argument for open source software to a higher plane, that of being a necessary component of scientific proof. It points out that the increasing use of computational science as a basis for scientific discovery implies that open source must become a standard requirement for documentation. Apparently some journals such as Science already require source code to be supplied along with submissions of articles."
Security advisories for Friday

Debian has updated openssl (integer underflow).
Fedora has updated F16: pidgin-otr (format string vulnerability), F16: drupal6-og (upstream security update).
Ubuntu has updated 10.04: kernel (multiple vulnerabilities), backuppc (cross-site scripting), and update-manager (multiple vulnerabilities).
Fedora 17 release pushed back to May 29

Fedora Project Leader Robyn Bergeron announced that the release of Fedora 17 has been delayed by one week, to May 29. "GA [General Availability] for F17 is now scheduled for 2012-05-29. Adjustments to the schedule and wiki will be completed later today. We will be meeting again next Thursday, 2012-05-24, for another Go/No-Go meeting." The decision was reached in order to close four outstanding blockers. A second F17 release candidate (RC2) will be spun in the interim.
Mandriva Linux to "return to the community"
The Mandriva Blog contains a short posting stating Mandriva SA's intent to hand control of the distribution over to the community. "This means that the future of the distribution will not be arbitrary decided by the Mandriva company anymore, but we intend to let the distribution evolve in and under the caring responsibility of the community. Mandriva SA will of course be a part of this entity and will support it with direct contributions." How the governance of this community will work is to be worked out.

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