Archive:Packaging Survey May 2009: Difference between revisions

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We have a packaging wishlist with a large number of packages, many of them obsolete. To find out software Fedora users were using and missing out in the repository, a survey was conducted in Fedora forum, mailing lists and some linux user groups. The result is provided here for convenience.

Wishlist

Software	Description	upstream url	review request/ rpms / comments
ebox	web based administration tool similar to webmin	http://ebox-platform.com/	debian focused upstream but willing to cooperating with interested developers
CSSC	GNU sccs replacement	http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cssc/	actively maintained but stable. Package for slightly old version available at https://cryregarder.com/CSSC-1.1.1-2.src.rpm
remind	reminder - alternative to evolution appointments	http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind	already in Fedora from Fedora Core 6
qtmess	popups	http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/qtmess.html	small utility
wicd	alternative to NetworkManager	http://wicd.net/	Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury is working on this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511204
mbrowse	a graphical SNMP MIB browser	http://www.kill-9.org/mbrowse/
dbacl	Powerful text classifier	http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/	can be combined with procmail for spam filtering
chan capi		http://www.chan-capi.org/	chan-capi allows the Asterisk to use ISDN CAPI interface [SRPM]
JMRI		http://jmri.sourceforge.net/	OpenJDK needs to have java async communications interface. verify this
calender server	caldev server	http://calendarserver.org/
ferret	Ferret is an interactive computer visualization for oceanographers	http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/
analog	www logfile analyser and summary report generator	http://www.analog.cx/
tork	Anonymity Manager	http://tork.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php	uses tor
cron-o-meter	exercise calculator	http://spaz.ca/cronometer/	java software
kxstich	KXStitch is a program that lets you create cross stitch patterns and charts	http://kxstitch.sourceforge.net/	KDE 3 application? no plans for KDE 4 port
freemind	mind mapping	http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page	java based
arista	video transcoder		Rahul Sundaram has a review request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502477
transmageddon	video transcoder		Rahul Sundaram has a spec. waiting on a new release of pyobject2 to fix a bug
ROOT	data analysis framework	http://root.cern.ch/drupal/	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542990
joomla	content management system	http://www.joomla.org/
gtapecalc	desktop calculator with paper like output	http://gtapecalc.sourceforge.net/	Rahul Sundaram is working on this
cmu common lisp	lisp	http://www.cons.org/cmucl/	is available for Fedora but only for 32-bit systems. code is not ported to 64-bit systems yet.
dans guardian	proxy filter	http://dansguardian.org/	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500013
celtx	media pre-production	http://celtx.com/	Netscape License - acceptable
inform fiction		http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html or http://gnome-inform7.sourceforge.net//	former license is unclear
		http://naughtysvn.tigris.org/	seve from fedoraforum has a rpm for this
~~nicotine~~	~~filesharing~~	~~http://www.nicotine-plus.org/~~	~~http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/pub/srpm/nicotine+-1.2.10-1.fc11.src.rpm + https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551027~~
shoooes	ruby framework	http://shoooes.net/
metasploit	framework for creating security tools and exploits	http://metasploit.com/framework/	3-clause BSD license
rasmol	molecular visualization software	http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
gbuffy	mailbox biff program	http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/gbuffy/
JEP	Java Math Expression Parser	http://sourceforge.net/projects/jep/
argouml	UML program	http://argouml.tigris.org/
tinyuml	UML program	http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyuml
phplot	charts	http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplot/
linrad	ham radio program	http://www.nitehawk.com/sm5bsz/linuxdsp/linrad.htm
menumaker	menu generator for small window managers like fluxbox	http://sourceforge.net/projects/menumaker	Gireesh Sreekantan is working on this. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2009-June/msg00002.html
eucalyptus	Amazon EC2 compatible cloud infrastructure	http://open.eucalyptus.com/
courier (imap and authlib)	imap server	http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/	mfleming has packages of both: http://www.thatfleminggent.com/rpm-packages
network stimulator ns-2	Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research	http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnam/	old rpms at http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2325036/com/ns-2.27-7.i386.rpm.html
qmail	Mail transfer agent	http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html	Some suggested patches at http://netqmail.org/
djbdns	DNS servers	http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html	Some suggested patches at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq/
daemontools	tools for managing daemons	http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html	Some suggested patches at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq/
ucspi-tcp	tools for running tcp services	http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html	Some suggested patches at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq/
ezmlm-idx	mailing list software	http://www.ezmlm.org/	Dependent on qmail. Based on http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html
Songbird	Powerful media player, plugin extendible, uses XUL engine, similar to Amarok or iTunes but better ;)	http://getsongbird.com/	RPMS exist: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Builds/Contributed_Builds
Navit	GPS navigation system that can use OpenStreetMap maps	http://www.navit-project.org/	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485652
BackupNinja	coordinate system backup by dropping a few simple configuration files into /etc/backup.d/. Most programs you might use for making backups don't have their own configuration file format.	https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/show/backupninja/
Ossec	Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.	http://www.ossec.net/main/

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 | qtmess ||  popups || http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/qtmess.html || small utility
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-| wicd ||  alternative to NetworkManager || http://wicd.net/ ||
+| wicd ||  alternative to NetworkManager || http://wicd.net/ || [[User:Sherry151|Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury]] is working on this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511204||
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 | mbrowse ||  a graphical SNMP MIB browser  || http://www.kill-9.org/mbrowse/ ||
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 | dbacl ||  Powerful text classifier  || http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/ || can be combined with procmail for spam filtering
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-| chan capi  ||   ||  http://www.chan-capi.org/ || chan-capi allows the Asterisk to use ISDN CAPI interface
+| chan capi  ||   ||  http://www.chan-capi.org/ || chan-capi allows the Asterisk to use ISDN CAPI interface [[http://heffer.fedorapeople.org/chan_capi-1.1.2-1.fc11.src.rpm SRPM]]
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 | JMRI  ||   ||  http://jmri.sourceforge.net/ || OpenJDK needs to have java async communications interface. verify this
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 | cron-o-meter ||  exercise calculator ||  http://spaz.ca/cronometer/||  java software
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-|  kxstich ||  KXStitch is a program that lets you create cross stitch patterns and charts ||  http://kxstitch.sourceforge.net/ ||
+|  kxstich ||  KXStitch is a program that lets you create cross stitch patterns and charts ||  http://kxstitch.sourceforge.net/ || KDE 3 application? no plans for KDE 4 port
-|-
-|  moserial || serial terminal ||  http://live.gnome.org/moserial||  vala based. mjc AT avtechpulse.com is interested in packaging
-|-
-|  unknown horizon ||  2D real-time strategy stimulation on economy and city building||  http://www.unknown-horizons.org/ ||http://packman.links2linux.de/package/UnknownHorizon  '''contains Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 sound which is not FSF free'''
-|-
-|  pokerth || Texas Hold'Em Poker  || http://www.pokerth.net/  || https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502851
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 | freemind  || mind mapping   || http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page  || java based
-|-
-|  agedu || web based disk usage calculator  || http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/agedu/  || https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502101
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 |  arista  || video transcoder  ||  || Rahul Sundaram has a review request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502477
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 |  transmageddon || video transcoder || || Rahul Sundaram has a spec. waiting on a new release of pyobject2 to fix a bug
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-|  root || data analysis framework || http://root.cern.ch/drupal/  || https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451744
+|  ROOT || data analysis framework || http://root.cern.ch/drupal/  || https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542990
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 |  joomla || content management system || http://www.joomla.org/ ||
-|-
-|  ytree || ncurses based file manager || http://www.han.de/~werner/ytree.html || Minto Joseph has a review request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502987
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 | gtapecalc || desktop calculator with paper like output || http://gtapecalc.sourceforge.net/ || Rahul Sundaram is working on this
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 | cmu common lisp  || lisp || http://www.cons.org/cmucl/ || is available for Fedora but only for 32-bit systems. code is not ported to 64-bit systems yet.
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-| dans guardian || proxy filter || http://dansguardian.org/ || https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500013 ||
+| dans guardian || proxy filter || http://dansguardian.org/ || https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500013
-|-
-|  pannini || perspective tool || http://sourceforge.net/projects/pvqt/ || Ankur Sinha is working on this
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 |  celtx || media pre-production|| http://celtx.com/ || Netscape License - acceptable
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-|  inform fiction ||  || http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html or http://gnome-inform7.sourceforge.net//  || former license is unclear ||
+|  inform fiction ||  || http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html or http://gnome-inform7.sourceforge.net//  || former license is unclear
-|-
-|  pdfchain || ||  || https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502856
 |-
 |  || || http://naughtysvn.tigris.org/ || seve from fedoraforum has a rpm for this
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-|   nicotine|| filesharing ||  http://www.nicotine-plus.org/ ||  http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/pub/srpm/nicotine+-1.2.10-1.fc11.src.rpm
+|  <strike>nicotine</strike>|| <strike>filesharing</strike> ||  <strike>http://www.nicotine-plus.org/</strike> ||  <strike>http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/pub/srpm/nicotine+-1.2.10-1.fc11.src.rpm + https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551027</strike>
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 | shoooes || ruby framework  ||  http://shoooes.net/   ||
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 |  rasmol ||  molecular visualization software || http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/    ||
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-|  sk1 || illustration program similar to corel draw or adobe illustrator   || http://www.sk1project.org/    ||https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502926
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 | gbuffy ||  mailbox biff program ||   http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/gbuffy/  ||
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 |  linrad ||  ham radio program ||      http://www.nitehawk.com/sm5bsz/linuxdsp/linrad.htm  ||
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-|   menumaker || menu generator for small window managers like fluxbox  ||       http://sourceforge.net/projects/menumaker ||
+|   menumaker || menu generator for small window managers like fluxbox  ||       http://sourceforge.net/projects/menumaker || Gireesh Sreekantan is working on this. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2009-June/msg00002.html
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 |   eucalyptus||  Amazon EC2 compatible cloud infrastructure  ||    http://open.eucalyptus.com/   ||
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 |  network stimulator ns-2  || Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research   ||    http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnam/    || old rpms at http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2325036/com/ns-2.27-7.i386.rpm.html
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-|    ||   ||       ||
+|qmail||Mail transfer agent||http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html||Some suggested patches at http://netqmail.org/
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-|    ||   ||       ||
+|djbdns||DNS servers||http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html||Some suggested patches at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq/
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-|    ||   ||       ||
+|daemontools||tools for managing daemons||http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html||Some suggested patches at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq/
+|-
+|ucspi-tcp||tools for running tcp services||http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html||Some suggested patches at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq/
+|-
+|ezmlm-idx||mailing list software||http://www.ezmlm.org/||Dependent on qmail. Based on http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html
+|-
+|Songbird||Powerful media player, plugin extendible, uses XUL engine, similar to Amarok or iTunes but better ;)||http://getsongbird.com/||RPMS exist: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Builds/Contributed_Builds
+|-
+|Navit||GPS navigation system that can use OpenStreetMap maps||http://www.navit-project.org/||https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485652
+|-
+|BackupNinja||coordinate system backup by dropping a few simple configuration files into /etc/backup.d/. Most programs you might use for making backups don't have their own configuration file format.||https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/show/backupninja/||
+|-
+|Ossec||Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.||http://www.ossec.net/main/||
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