Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week05

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 05/2008

Most important happenings

• EPEL5 testing -> stable move happened (as always around the 1st each month). We have now 1011 different software packages (counting SRPMs) in the EPEL5 proper repositories for RHEL5/CentOS5.

• Two things from https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00191.html

• Stephen J Smoogen ( smooge ) filled the vacant seat in the EPEL Steering Committee

• Thorsten Leemhuis ( knurd ) will step down as chair for the EPEL Steering Committee; he also plans to leave it, thus there is another seat to fill (see also https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00177.html ); self nominations welcome

Mailing list

Noteworthy discussions

• Xavier Bachelot is working on rt3 for EPEL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00174.html

• Michael A. Peters want to see Gnome office in EPEL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00000.html

Meeting

Last weeks meeting

Full log:

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00193.html

Attendees:

• knurd
• mdomsch
• mmcgrath
• nirik
• quaid
• smooge
• stahnma

Summary:

• broken dep reports go to the list | mmcgrath ? | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc

• the old script isn't running anymore

• discussing how to move forward; the script from mschwendt looks better then the old one, as it mails the list as well (and likely runs faster); more discussions needed (see also: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00194.html )

• next testing -> stable move | knurd | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/NextTestingStableMove

• knurd prepared it prepared and improved the docs how to do the move

• KojiAndBodhiForEpel | mmcgrath | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/KojiAndBodhiForEpel

• no news from Jess_S or mmcgrath

• fill the steering committee | all | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc

• smooge (who self nominated on the list) was approved as steering committee member

• knurd want's to leave:

• thus we have a vacant seat again; self-nominations welcome; quaid: "I wonder if any of the RHTers who deal with RHX would be interested"

• smooge and nirik are nominated as new chairmen; more nominations welcome; new chair will be elected in the next meeting

• new meeting time can be discussed

• Free discussion around EPEL

• smooge> | ok how are we doing for packages etc? how many are still in waiting to be branched etc? and wish list?

• no exact numbers, but there are likely about 2500 - 3000 packages (counting SRPMS) in Fedora which are not in EPEL

• smooge> | I think once we are pushing things regularly and getting more packages.. it would be a good idea to start recruuitiong more mirrors

• more mirrors can't hurt; asking on that closed mirror list might be the best start to get more mirrors

Next Meeting

Wednesday, 20080213 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors: 172

We welcome 4 new contributors: arnd sxw timn xavierb

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 1056

Number of binary packages: 1960

There are 35 new Packages:

• coriander | Control a 1394 digital camera interactively
• crack | Password cracker
• dtc | Device Tree Compiler
• innotop | A MySQL and InnoDB monitor program
• libdc1394 | 1394-based digital camera control library
• livecd-tools | Tools for building live CD's
• mash | Koji buildsystem to yum repository converter
• mod_line_edit | A general-puropse filter for text documents
• perl-Algorithm-CheckDigits | Perl extension to generate and test check digits
• perl-Class-Inner | A perlish implementation of Java like inner classes
• perl-Crypt-CBC | Encrypt Data with Cipher Block Chaining Mode
• perl-HTML-PrettyPrinter | Generate nice HTML files from HTML syntax trees
• perl-HTML-Scrubber | Library for scrubbing/sanitizing html
• perl-IPC-ShareLite | Light-weight interface to shared memory
• perl-Linux-Pid | Get the native PID and the PPID on Linux
• perl-Math-BaseCnv | Fast functions to CoNVert between number Bases
• perl-NetAddr-IP | Manages IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and subnets
• perl-PDL | The Perl Data Language
• perl-TermReadKey | A perl module for simple terminal control
• perl-Test-Unit | The PerlUnit testing framework
• perl-Text-Format | Various subroutines to format text
• perl-User | API for locating user information regardless of OS
• perl-XML-Handler-YAWriter | Yet another Perl SAX XML Writer
• perl-XML-Merge | Flexibly merge XML documents
• perl-XML-Tidy | Tidy indenting of XML documents
• perl-XML-Xerces | Perl API to Xerces XML parser
• python-elixir | A declarative mapper for SQLAlchemy
• python-libgmail-docs | Documents and examples for python-libgmail
• python-libgmail | Library to provide access to Gmail via Python
• remctl | Client/server for Kerberos-authenticated command execution
• rtpproxy | A symmetric RTP proxy
• sagator | SAGATOR - antivir/antispam gateway for smtp server
• silkscreen-fonts | Silkscreen four member type family
• up-imapproxy | University of Pittsburgh IMAP Proxy
• xorg-x11-drv-openchrome | Xorg X11 openchrome video driver

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 644

Number of binary packages: 1180

There are 25 new Packages:

• innotop | A MySQL and InnoDB monitor program
• perl-Algorithm-CheckDigits | Perl extension to generate and test check digits
• perl-Authen-Krb5 | Krb5 Perl module
• perl-Class-Inner | A perlish implementation of Java like inner classes
• perl-Crypt-CBC | Encrypt Data with Cipher Block Chaining Mode
• perl-DateTime-Precise | Perform common time and date operations with additional GPS operations
• perl-HTML-Scrubber | Library for scrubbing/sanitizing html
• perl-IPC-ShareLite | Light-weight interface to shared memory
• perl-Linux-Pid | Get the native PID and the PPID on Linux
• perl-Math-BaseCnv | Fast functions to CoNVert between number Bases
• perl-NetAddr-IP | Manages IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and subnets
• perl-TermReadKey | A perl module for simple terminal control
• perl-Test-Unit | The PerlUnit testing framework
• perl-Text-Format | Various subroutines to format text
• perl-User | API for locating user information regardless of OS
• perl-XML-Handler-YAWriter | Yet another Perl SAX XML Writer
• perl-XML-Merge | Flexibly merge XML documents
• perl-XML-Tidy | Tidy indenting of XML documents
• perl-XML-Xerces | Perl API to Xerces XML parser
• python-libgmail | Library to provide access to Gmail via Python
• remctl | Client/server for Kerberos-authenticated command execution
• rtpproxy | A symmetric RTP proxy
• sagator | SAGATOR - antivir/antispam gateway for smtp server
• silkscreen-fonts | Silkscreen four member type family
• up-imapproxy | University of Pittsburgh IMAP Proxy

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