Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week26

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 26/2007

Most important happenings

• Jeff Sheltren is new Steering Committee member (he replaces Axel Thimm, who left some weeks ago)

• wiki docs will be ready and reviewed soon; @everyone: everything fine with the docs? anything missing?

• things that need do be done before EPEL announcement: fix broken deps, final repo layout, check if everything is okay

EPEL SIG Meeting

Attending

From the Steering Committee:

• Jeff_S (Jeff Sheltren)
• knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
• mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
• nirik (KevinFenzi)
• quiad (KarstenWade)

Missing from the Steering Committee:

• dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
• stahnma (MichaelStahnke)

Others that participated the meeting: notting, rdieter, f13, _blah_

Summary

• bodhi/testing repo/final repo layout – nirik/lmacken

• the plan is to move on using plague and the extras push scripts for the near future; koji plus bodhi later (hopefully soon; needs koji improvements that need to be written)

• we move the current repo down one level (hardlinking the files, to make mirrors happy) into a subdirectory "stable" to leave room on the server for other EPEL in the future (that might happen or not).

• we freeze the current repo and make the testing repo the default target for now and hand-move packages over to the stable repo when needed manually (information flow: via wiki) – e.g. new packages that were in testing for some days as well as important bugfixes (security, hard crashers, ...)

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

• quaid and Jess_S are working on it; seems to be in the final stages

• unresolved deps / packages missing in owners.epel.list

• we should solve the broken deps soon (needed before announcement);

• nirik will poke maintainers (help from SIG members would likely be appreciated);

• mmcgrath will try to set up the broken deps checker script somewhere that spmas maintainers and the list in case of broken deps

• should we try to bug c4chris, so he runs his package status script for epel as well?

• vacant seat in the steering committee

• Jeff_S was elected by the Steering Committee members to fill Axel's seat

• Free discussion around EPEL

• _blah_> "i've requested a few packages from fedora maintainers that have not gotten back to me... what is the next step in getting those packages into epel?"; knurd mailed the Fedora list about this; see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg02614.html; revisit next week

• notting> "do we want a separate excludearch tracker for epel, or piggyback on the fedora one?" -> moved to the list, revisit next week

• f13> "has there been any progress on the RHX issue?" - quaid is supposed to do some looking into it IIRC

Full Log

https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00000.html

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors 101

We welcome 3 new contributors: mcepl_AT_redhat.com, qspencer_AT_ieee.org, skvidal_AT_linux.duke.edu

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 405

Number of binary packages: 736

There are 12 new Packages:

• bzr | Friendly distributed version control system
• cvs2svn | CVS to Subversion Repository Converter
• glpk | GNU Linear Programming Kit
• itcl | Object oriented extensions to Tcl and Tk
• python-dateutil | Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module
• python-feedparser | Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python
• python-matplotlib | Python plotting library
• python-memcached | A Python memcached client library
• python-paramiko | A SSH2 protocol library for python
• pytz | World Timezone Definitions for Python
• re2c | Tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions
• yum-utils | Utilities based around the yum package manager

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 252

Number of binary packages: 529

There are 4 new Packages:

• cvs2svn | CVS to Subversion Repository Converter
• itcl | Object oriented extensions to Tcl and Tk
• python-feedparser | Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python
• re2c | Tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions

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