Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week24

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 24/2007

Most important happenings

The EPEL Steering Committee discussed the repotags issue once again and once again voted to not use repotags for EPEL. Some discussions started after that; see https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-June/msg00041.html for their start.

EPEL SIG Meeting

Attending

From the Steering Committee:

• knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis) (partly)
• mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
• nirik (KevinFenzi)
• dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
• stahnma (MichaelStahnke)
• quiad (KarstenWade) (had fun at the dentist)

Missing from the Steering Committee: nobody

Others that participated the meeting: Jeff_S, smooge, notting, lancelan, f13, spot,

Summary

• lots of discussion around repotags again; see the full log for details; four votes against repotags, two people are undecided; so once again the decision is "no repotags"

• EPEL mock configs in Fedora's mock package

-- should be part of the latest release

• comps.xml for EPEL -- dgilmore is working on it; he'll check something into cvs soon and then post to the list asking people to look over it

• finish the wiki docs and remove the warnings by end of may

quaid, puts in up on his to-do list as a high priority

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors 90

We welcome 4 new contributors: dan_AT_danny.cz, jafo-redhat_AT_tummy.com, jafo_AT_tummy.com, mmahut_AT_redhat.com, rob.myers_AT_gtri.gatech.edu, ville.skytta_AT_iki.fi

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 359

Number of binary packages: 578

There are 48 new Packages:

• akode | Audio-decoding framework
• bonnie++ | Filesystem and disk benchmark & burn-in suite
• digitemp | Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire device reading console application
• exiv2 | Exif and Iptc metadata manipulation library
• factory | C++ class library for multivariate polynomial data
• fltk | C++ user interface toolkit
• gc | C++ Garbage Collector
• glump | A small web application to glue files from multiple sources
• kannel | WAP and SMS gateway
• kflickr | Standalone Flickr Uploader for KDE
• kodos | Visual regular expression editor
• libfac | An extension to Singular-factory
• libksba | X.509 library
• lua | Powerful light-weight programming language
• Macaulay2 | System for algebraic geometry and commutative algebra
• maxima | Symbolic Computation Program
• mdsplib | METAR Decoder Software Package Library
• nikto | Web server scanner
• ntfs-config | A front-end to Enable/disable NTFS write support
• ntl | High-performance algorithms for vectors, matrices, and polynomials
• OpenEXR | A high dynamic-range (HDR) image file format
• openslp | Open implementation of Service Location Protocol V2
• perl-Convert-BinHex | Macintosh BinHex extractor library for Perl
• perl-GDGraph | Graph generation package for Perl
• perl-GD | Perl interface to the GD graphics library
• perl-GDTextUtil | Text utilities for use with GD
• perl-IO-stringy | I/O on in-core objects like strings and arrays for Perl
• perl-MIME-tools | Modules for parsing and creating MIME entities in Perl
• php-pear-PhpDocumentor | The complete documentation solution for PHP
• postgresql-pgpoolAdmin | PgpoolAdmin - web-based pgpool administration
• python-genshi | Toolkit for stream-based generation of output for the web
• python-imaging | Python's own image processing library
• python-IPy | Python module for handling IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses and Networks
• python-kid | Kid - A simple and pythonic XML template language
• python-pgsql | Enhanced python interface to PostgreSQL
• qgit | QGit is a git GUI repository browser
• redet-doc | Documentation for redet
• redet | Regular expression development and execution tool
• sbcl | Steel Bank Common Lisp
• SDL_image | Image loading library for SDL
• SDL_mixer | Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library
• SDL_net | SDL portable network library
• SDL_ttf | Simple DirectMedia Layer TrueType Font library
• xar | The eXtensible ARchiver
• xdg-utils | Basic desktop integration functions
• xforms | XForms toolkit library

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 230

Number of binary packages: 423

There are 19 new Packages:

• bonnie++ | Filesystem and disk benchmark & burn-in suite
• digitemp | Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire device reading console application
• lua | A powerful light-weight programming language
• mdsplib | METAR Decoder Software Package Library
• mock | Builds packages inside chroots
• nikto | Web server scanner
• perl-Convert-BinHex | Macintosh BinHex extractor library for Perl
• perl-IO-stringy | I/O on in-core objects like strings and arrays for Perl
• postgresql-pgpoolAdmin | PgpoolAdmin - web-based pgpool administration
• python-IPy | Python module for handling IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses and Networks
• python-pgsql | Enhanced python interface to PostgreSQL
• qgit | QGit is a git GUI repository browser
• redet-doc | Documentation for redet
• redet | Regular expression development and execution tool
• SDL_image | Image loading library for SDL
• SDL_mixer | Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library
• SDL_net | SDL portable network library
• SDL_ttf | Simple DirectMedia Layer TrueType Font library
• xar | The eXtensible ARchiver

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