Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week25

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 25/2007

Most important happenings

We'll likely fill the Vacant Steering Committee Seat over the next week; so if you are interested let knurd know!

EPEL SIG Meeting

Attending

From the Steering Committee:

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

Missing from the Steering Committee:

• knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis) (partly)

Others that participated the meeting: rdieter, _blah_,

Summary

• Finish the wiki -- quaid

• quaid

> I think all of you have done a good job of making the content ... full and rich

so it's a few hours of edits left

I'll be able to do an hour today, for sure, so again ... should be done by the end of the week

)

• Repo-layout

• looks like Fedora will keep lmacken and mbonnet busy for a while; so we should might towards a solution to annouce epel, but use plague and the old extras push-scripts for the near future; or go without testing for nowdiscuss further on the list

• some discussion if we want stable and rolling releases

• Make sure the repo is in good shape

• we maybe should run the dependency checker script regularly; mmcgrath will look into this

• Announce EPEL officially

• mmcgrath> so we're blocking on the wiki as well as the build stuff.

So thats the end of the big picture tasks really.

• Vacant seat in the steering committee

• will get discussed on the list

• Free Discussion:

• some discussion around RHX and if EPEL can package stuff that's part of it; see full log for details

Full Log

https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-June/msg00056.html

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors 98

We welcome 8 new contributors: alex_AT_dalloz.de, i_AT_stingr.net, jjohnstn_AT_redhat.com, john_AT_ncphotography.com, jonathansteffan_AT_gmail.com, lists_AT_forevermore.net, otaylor_AT_redhat.com, overholt_AT_redhat.com, robert_AT_marcanoonline.com, than_AT_redhat.com

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 393

Number of binary packages: 641

There are 34 new Packages:

• aqbanking | A library for online banking functions and financial data import/export

• asciidoc | Text based document generation

• babel | Tools for internationalizing Python applications

• bash-completion | Programmable completion for Bash

• checkstyle | Java source code checker

• ctapi-cyberjack | CT-API 1.1 driver for REINER SCT cyberjack USB chipcard reader

• cvsplot | Collect statistics from CVS controlled files

• eclipse-cdt | Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) plugin

• eclipse-checkstyle | Checkstyle plugin for Eclipse

• fortune-mod | A program which will display a fortune

• ganymed-ssh2 | SSH-2 protocol implementation in pure Java

• git | Git core and tools

• gnucash-docs | Help files and documentation for the GnuCash personal finanace manager

• gnucash | GnuCash is an application to keep track of your finances

• gwenhywfar | A multi-platform helper library for other libraries

• g-wrap | A tool for creating Scheme interfaces to C libraries

• jakarta-commons-cli | Command Line Interface Library for Java

• kmymoney2 | Personal finance

• libofx | A library for supporting Open Financial Exchange (OFX)

• mercurial | A fast, lightweight distributed source control management system

• mksh | MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell

• mod_security | Security module for the Apache HTTP Server

• muParser | A fast math parser library

• perl-Finance-Quote | A Perl module that retrieves stock and mutual fund quotes

• perl-HTML-TableExtract | A Perl module for extracting content in HTML tables

• pfqueue | Queue manager for the Postfix/Exim Mail Transport Agents

• postgresql-table_log | Log data changes in a PostgreSQL table

• reciteword | Recite Word Easily

• recode | Conversion between character sets and surfaces

• rsnapshot | Local and remote filesystem snapshot utility

• rzip | A large-file compression program

• sec | SEC (simple event correlator)

• slib | Platform independent library for scheme

• svnkit | Pure Java Subversion client library

• tcptraceroute | A traceroute implementation using TCP packets

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 248

Number of binary packages: 460

There are 18 new Packages:

• aqbanking | A library for online banking functions and financial data import/export

• bash-completion | Programmable completion for Bash

• ctapi-cyberjack | CT-API 1.1 driver for REINER SCT cyberjack USB chipcard reader

• cvsplot | Collect statistics from CVS controlled files

• fortune-mod | A program which will display a fortune

• git | Git core and tools

• gnucash-docs | Help files and documentation for the GnuCash personal finanace manager

• gnucash | GnuCash is an application to keep track of your finances

• gwenhywfar | A multi-platform helper library for other libraries

• g-wrap | A tool for creating Scheme interfaces to C libraries

• libofx | A library for supporting Open Financial Exchange (OFX)

• mercurial | A fast, lightweight distributed source control management system

• mksh | MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell

• muParser | A fast math parser library

• perl-Finance-Quote | A Perl module that retrieves stock and mutual fund quotes

• perl-HTML-TableExtract | A Perl module for extracting content in HTML tables

• pfqueue | Queue manager for the Postfix/Exim Mail Transport Agents

• recode | Conversion between character sets and surfaces

• rzip | A large-file compression program

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