Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week49

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 49/2007

Most important happenings

• knurd pushed a lot of packaged from EPEL5/testing to the proper EPEL repo (some were omitted due to broke deps). See these mails for details:

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00009.html

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00029.html

• knurd enhanced the wishlist, added lots of packages and send mails to the Fedora owners:

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00037.html

Mailing list

Noteworthy discussions

• major rework for ClamAV in the works; please see: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00019.html

Meeting

Next Meeting

20071219 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

Last weeks meeting

Full log:

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00009.html

Attendees:

• dgilmore

• knurd

• mmcgrath

• nirik

• quaid

• stahnma

Summary:

• RHEL 5.1 (and 4.6) for the builders | dgilmore, mmcgrath

• mmcgrath will take care of updating the buildroots to 5.1 and do the switch; announcement when happened to the list; 4.6. will be prepared, waiting for CentOS 4.6

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

• with FE6 EOL we are the only ones left on plague and the old scripts (and without bodhi) which might become a problem sooner or later

• mmcgrath will try to poke the right people to make koji for EPEL hopefully possible sooner; he will also officially take care of this task from now on ("its going to become an Infrastructure priority anyway, count me in as point man")

• testing -> stable move for EL5 | knurd | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/NextTestingStableMove

• prepared and happened when this summary got written (see above)

• update http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies | unassigned | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc

• page is a bit oputdated; nirik will take a look to bring it up2date

• Free discussion around EPEL

• nirik> | I'd like to throw out a plea for a reviewer for my clamav for epel package... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396171

nirik> | I'd like to get clamav in, but I fear people are afraid because it's not the same as the fedora package. Or that it is and they would have to review that...

• nirik> | I also have been working on getting munin in... cleaned up the fedora package and am working on the requirements for epel.

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors: 143

We welcome 2 new contributers: dsugar, jlaska

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 847

Number of binary packages: 1569

There are 18 new Packages:

• dsniff | Tools for network auditing and penetration testing

• fbreader | E-book reader

• fedora-packager | Tools for setting up a fedora maintainer environment

• gqview | Image browser and viewer

• libEMF | A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles

• libetpan | Portable, efficient middleware for different kinds of mail access

• libnids | Implementation of an E-component of Network Intrusion Detection System

• pcapy | A Python interface to libpcap

• perl-BerkeleyDB | Perl extension for Berkeley DB version 2, 3 or 4

• perl-Jcode | Perl extension interface for converting Japanese text

• perl-Unicode-Map8 | Mapping table between 8-bit chars and Unicode for Perl

• perl-Unicode-Map | Perl module for mapping charsets from and to utf16 unicode

• perl-Unicode-MapUTF8 | Conversions to and from arbitrary character sets and UTF8

• perl-Unicode-String | Perl modules to handle various Unicode issues

• plotutils | GNU vector and raster graphics utilities and libraries

• pstoedit | Translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats

• python-pydns | Python module for DNS (Domain Name Service)

• vala | A modern programming language for GNOME

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 470

Number of binary packages: 926

There are 11 new Packages:

• aoetools | ATA over Ethernet Tools

• dsniff | Tools for network auditing and penetration testing

• fedora-packager | Tools for setting up a fedora maintainer environment

• libetpan | Portable, efficient middleware for different kinds of mail access

• libnids | Implementation of an E-component of Network Intrusion Detection System

• perl-BerkeleyDB | Perl extension for Berkeley DB version 2, 3 or 4

• perl-Jcode | Perl extension interface for converting Japanese text

• perl-Unicode-Map8 | Mapping table between 8-bit chars and Unicode for Perl

• perl-Unicode-Map | Perl module for mapping charsets from and to utf16 unicode

• perl-Unicode-MapUTF8 | Conversions to and from arbitrary character sets and UTF8

• perl-Unicode-String | Perl modules to handle various Unicode issues

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