Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week17

Monthly EPEL Summary

Week 09/2008 2008-03-15 -> 2008-04-28

Most important happenings

• Missed a lot of reports. Things got done.. just missed reports
• RHEL-5.2 beta problems will change firefox-devel and other things.
• We may have Red Hat Summit Talks (or we might not... news at 11)

Mailing list

Noteworthy discussions

• Jeff Spaleta added himself to EPEL
• EL-5 updates were pushed at end of March.
• EL-4 updates were pushed at middle of April
• EL-5 updates were pushed at end of April.
• Wishlist was updated and lots of items pushed.

Meeting

Next Meeting

Wednesday, 20080507 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

The topics scheduled for the next meeting as well as a rough status for all in-progress steering committee tasks can always be found in the wiki at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Schedule

Stats

The statistics for some items are broken because of changes in yum in RHEL-5 beta.

General

Number of EPEL Contributors:185

We welcome 11 new contributors: fschwarz konradm ravenoak smooge bradbell green joshkayse sandeen huzaifas kairo ianweller

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 387?

Number of binary packages: 843?

There are 13 new Packages:

• amarok | Media player
• atop | An advanced interactive monitor to view the load on system and process level
• bluefish | GTK2 web development application for experienced users
• cppad | no base package is installed, see cppad-devel and cppad-doc
• flam3 | Programs to generate and render cosmic recursive fractal flames
• hydrogen | Advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux
• imapsync | Tool to migrate email between IMAP servers
• inadyn | Dynamic DNS Client
• java-1.6.0-openjdk | OpenJDK Runtime Environment
• koules | Action game with multiplayer, network and sound support
• kstart | Daemon version of kinit for Kerberos v5
• libffi | A portable foreign function interface library
• libsamplerate | Sample rate conversion library for audio data
• loudmouth | Loudmouth is a Jabber programming library written in C
• lsvpd | VPD/hardware inventory utilities for Linux
• maradns | Authoritative and recursive DNS server made with security in mind
• mod_suphp | An apache2 module for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners
• monitor-edid | Tool for probing and parsing monitor EDID
• nettle | A low-level cryptographic library
• nsca | Nagios Service Check Acceptor
• padevchooser | Control applet for PulseAudio
• perl-Error | Error Perl module
• perl-HTML-Parser | Perl module for parsing HTML
• perl-HTML-Template | Perl module to use HTML Templates
• perl-IO-Capture | Abstract Base Class to build modules to capture output
• perl-Sub-Name | Name -- or rename -- a sub
• perl-WWW-Search | Virtual base class for WWW searches
• perl-XML-Entities | Decode strings with XML entities
• publican | Common files and scripts for publishing Documentation
• pulseaudio | Improved Linux sound server
• pyephem | The astronomy library for Python
• python-cjson | Fast JSON encoder/decoder for Python
• python-decorator | Module to simplify usage of decorators
• python-ply | Python Lex-Yacc
• rt3 | Request tracker 3
• tzdata-java | Time zone data for Java language
• viewmtn | Web interface for Monotone version control system
• xautolock | Launches a program when your X session has been idle

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 414?

Number of binary packages: 320?

There are 26 new Packages:

• atop | An advanced interactive monitor to view the load on system and process level
• bluefish | GTK2 web development application for experienced users
• flam3 | Programs to generate and render cosmic recursive fractal flames
• imlib2 | Image loading, saving, rendering, and manipulation library
• inadyn | Dynamic DNS Client
• mod_suphp | An apache2 module for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners
• monitor-edid | Tool for probing and parsing monitor EDID
• nettle | A low-level cryptographic library
• nsca | Nagios Service Check Acceptor
• perl-HTML-Parser | Perl module for parsing HTML
• perl-HTML-Template | Perl module to use HTML Templates
• perl-HTML-Tree | HTML tree handling modules for Perl
• perl-IPC-SharedCache | Perl module to manage a cache in SysV IPC shared memory
• perl-Text-Aspell | Perl interface to the GNU Aspell library
• perl-XML-Entities | Decode strings with XML entities
• perl-XML-TreeBuilder | Parser that builds a tree of XML::Element objects
• postgis | Geographic Information Systems Extensions to PostgreSQL
• pptp | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Client
• publican | Common files and scripts for publishing Documentation
• publican-fedora | Publican documentation template files for fedora
• pyke | Knowledge-based inference engine
• python-ply | Python Lex-Yacc
• roundcubemail | Round Cube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client
• synergy | Mouse and keyboard sharing utility
• taglib | Audio Meta-Data Library
• wesnoth | Turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme

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