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Orphaned Packages

Refer to the list or unmaintained and orphaned packages . This would be a good place to bring back into Fedora repositories packages where the original maintainer has moved on.

Packaging Survey May 2009

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging_Survey_May_2009

General Fedora Packages WishList

As a current contributor, if you know of projects that would be appropriate in Fedora package collection but are unable to maintain yourself just drop them with a line here. This list can be used to give other contributors ideas on what to package next. Please be aware however that the number of high quality, well maintained packages that Fedora repository provides scales with the number of active contributors. It is just as important to encourage new contributors as it is to desire new packages. If you are not yet a contributor to the Fedora packaging process, please look over this list and see if there are any projects you would be willing to maintain for the Fedora community.

If are interested in contributing to Fedora package collection, take a look at PackageMaintainers

A-D

aarddict - Offline wikipedia and dictionary viewer (Review Request)
airtime - The open radio software for scheduling and remote station management. Formerly campcaster.
Antsp2p - Client for the MUTE peer-to-peer anonymous network
~~ACE - An OO network programming toolkit in C++ (Review Request)~~ dropped for licensing issues
Alchemy - chaos generation tool, good for artists and sketchers - good creativity aid
Alfresco Enterprise content management system
alien - Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats Review Request
Apertium Toolbox to build shallow-transfer machine translation systems(contact #apertium channel in freenode network).
APF (Advanced Policy Firewall) - iptables(netfilter) based firewall system
Apache Directory Studio - An LDAP Directory Browser/Editor built on Eclipse RCP
AppArmor, application security framework -- user space utils/libs.
Aspell Dictionaries, some are missing.
Autotrash a simple Python script which purges files from your trash based on their age or the amount of free space left on the device. Uses the FreeDesktop.org Trash Info files included in GNOME. Very useful when run by cron so you can stop caring about emptying the trash.
awesome Highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. (Review Request)
Axiom - general purpose system for symbolic calculations.
~~BitCoin - Client for alternative online currency~~
- bitcoin can't be available due OpenSSL's ECC requirement, which is restrited in Fedora due to patent issues.
~~Blogbridge - Blog and rss reader (in Java)~~ - usage of proprietary libraries
Bluegriffon - BlueGriffon is a new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox 4, it's a modern and robust solution to edit Web pages in conformance to the latest Web Standards.
BlueJ - BlueJ is an educational integrated developmental editor for Java.
Bongo - Bongo is an easy-to-use mail and calendar system. Fork of Hula. (Review Request (Dropped))
~~BrOffice.org - BrOffice.org is the official brazilian release of OpenOffice.org~~ BrOffice Spin
bstring - Better String Library is an abstraction of a string data type which is superior to the C library char buffer string type, or C++'s std::string.
BT747 - BT747 is Software for GPS Data Logger Devices (read tracks, configure devices, photo geotagging and more). Written in Java, GPL license.
burp - Backup and restore program
CcHost - Creative Commons CMS that powers ccMixter
Cerebro - clustering monitoring tool with different design goals from Ganglia
chesnut-dialer A feature-rich Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) dialer written in Python (Dropped ~~Review Request~~ )
Cinefx - is an powerful opensource video editing and creating tool
cmotech-tools Tools for using C-motech hardware with Linux (wireless broadband)
~~colorgcc A tool to colorize the terminal output of GCC so error messages can be found within longer compiler outputs (Review request).~~
Conkeror Conkeror is a keyboard-oriented, highly-customizable, highly-extensible web browser based on Mozilla XULRunner, written mainly in JavaScript, and inspired by exceptional software such as Emacs and vi.
~~Crafty Crafty is a free, open-source computer chess program, generally more powerful than GNUchess.~~ - incompatible license
cryptlib a set of layered security services and associated programming interfaces that provide an integrated set of information and communications security capabilities
CSpace - Secure, decentralized Peer-to-Peer instant messaging (Review request (dropped) )
clonezilla - opensource clone system
CyaSSL - C Embedded SSL Library optimized for size and speed. GPLv2 License.
Debug PHP client - Cli utility for XDEBUG PHP.
Denim - UI sketching tool. BSD license. Created by the University of Washington. Crossplatform TabletPC input.
dispcalGUI - a graphical frontend for several utilities from the open source color management system Argyll CMS.
DITA and the DITA Open Toolkit - DITA is an XML-based technical writing syntax, and the DITA-OT is a set of Java-based tools for processing DITA documents. DITA and the DITA-OT are currently packaged for openSUSE.
dimdim - open source web meeting product with features like Application, Desktop and Presentation sharing with A/V streaming and chat. Upstream open development of the project looks dead.

E-G

e17-svn - Enlightenment window manager DR17 from the new svn repository
E4RAT - ("Ext4 - Reducing Access Times") is a toolset to accelerate the boot process as well as application startups.
WindowBuilder - Eclipse WindowBuilder Bi-directional Java GUI Designer
Ecomorph - OpenGL compositing manager that runs all the compiz plugins
Executequery - Execute Query is an operating system independent database utility written entirely in Java.
~~electric sheep - Best open source evolving screensaver in existence.~~ Cannot include in Fedora, has built in MPEG decoder
Enthought framework - python framework for building scientific data visualization applications
etcnet - is a new way to configure networks. It is designed to let you use all modern Linux network technologies in a convenient way
Evergreen ILS - open source Integrated Library System (ILS)
exfat - Free exFAT file system implementation
Flapjack - monitoring solution
Flyback - GUI for archiving similar to Apple's Time Machine.
fntsample - A program for making font samples that show Unicode coverage of the font and are similar in appearance to Unicode charts.
fondu - A set of programs to interconvert between mac font formats and pfb, ttf, otf and bdf files on unix.
fossology - free software tools to facilitate the study and analysis of Free and Open Source Software. Today we are best known for finding software licenses in text. GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1
Free-CAD - 3D CAD modeler
Freemat - Open source engineering and data processing application. Can be used as a free alternative to Matlab. GPL
Freeplane -- Freeplane is a powerful and free software for building the mind maps. It is a redesigned version of the well known FreeMind, and is created by one of FreeMind's key developers.
freetuxtv - WebTV player, see also package in Debian
gcvs - Graphical frontend to cvs (Last release 2003 -- though other clones WinCVS & MacCVS where released more recently)
GDM3setup - a GUI to setting GDM3
GEONExT - dynamic mathematics software for teaching and learning mathematics. Written in Java, licensed under GPLv2. Source code can be obtained at source@geonext.de
GeoGebra - free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. Program released under GPL, documentation under some CC non commercial license so we can't ship the documentation.
Gespeaker - Gespeaker is a GTK+ frontend for espeak. It allows to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume, speed and word gap. - There are also plugins for kopete, pidgin, etc. (Review Request)
g15tools - linux support to the g15 keyboard
GForge - GForge is a software for collaborative development for the software community (Dropped ~~Review Request~~)
GimpShop - GimpShop is a fork of gimp for more compatibility with a commercial image editing program.
git-flow - A collection of Git extensions to provide high-level repository operations for Vincent Driessen's branching model.
gksu & gksudo Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while logging the commands and arguments. Review Request (libgksu) & Review Request (gksu & gksudo)
glark - A replacement for (or supplement to) the grep family, glark offers: Perl compatible regular expressions, highlighting of matches, context around matches, complex expressions (and and or), and automatic exclusion of non-text files.
glParchis -- Parcheesi
~~gnome-shell-extension-weather - An extension for displaying weather notifications in Gnome Shell (Review request).~~ This extension can't be

included in Fedora due to the license terms of the Yahoo! API; however, it is now part of the RPM Fusion repositories (review request on RPM Fusion for gnome-shell-extension-weather).

Gnu Linux Semantics Storage System - A storage solution that distances you from thinking about Where you store your data to What your data is. [glscube-0.1.tar.gz has no Makefiles]
Gnulib - central location for common GNU code, intended to be shared among GNU packages.
GoogleCL - Command-line access to Google services.(Review Request]
gogoClient - Client to connect to IPv6 tunnel brokers using the TSP control protocol (Review Request)
gpltool - makes it easier and cheaper to look inside binary code, find compliance issues, and reduce uncertainty when deploying Free and Open Source Software. (requires unrar which is only available in rpmfuion-nonfree)
GNOME Media Applet . Media applet is an application to easily manage disks and devices on your system.
Gnome Menu Extended . Show KDE menu in GNOME. Complimentary to kmenu-gnome. (Review Request)
GNS3 - GNS3 is a graphical network simulator that allows you to design complex network topologies and to launch simulations on them. (Review request)
GNU Bayonne 1 and 2 - Telephony servers
Gpick - Color palette creation tool for designers (More info)
GPRS Easy Connect - GUI for GPRS connecting and supports 704 phones and 269 providers (2008-07-28 The project is closed).
gozer - gozer is a commandline text rendering utility for creating images from arbitrary text in antialiased truetype fonts using optional fontstyles, wordwrapping and layout control.
gwaterfall - This program facilitates comparison of various font and font rendering parameters.
~~Gnusound - audio editor.~~ (Includes MP3 encode/decode -> can't be included in Fedora)
gomponent
guppy is an application to download videos from the Topfield TF5000PVRt.
Gwyddion Free SPM (AFM, SNOM/NSOM, STM, MFM, …) data analysis software
Gorm is the GNUStep Project's answer to Interface Builder from Mac OS X and NEXTSTEP. Used to easily design UIs for GNUStep (Cocoa) based programs.

H-K

Habari - Next Generation Blogging Platform.
Heimdall - Heimdall is a cross-platform open-source tool suite used to flash firmware (aka ROMs) onto Samsung Galaxy S devices.
hardware4linux.info is Debian's official hardware profiler. Functional .rpm packages for Fedora already exist (.src and binary), but this should be better integrated with smolt (please see Fedora bug #433105)
Heirloom project provides traditional implementations of standard Unix utilities. In many cases, they have been derived from original Unix material released as Open Source by Caldera and Sun.
[1] - Heimdal Kerberos client/server - Free-er (encryption) implementation of kerberos
http_replicator a smart caching proxy ideal for use with apt/yum
HTTPS Everywhere - An extension for Mozilla-based browsers that forces secure connections for websites following defined rules. Developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project. License: GPLv2 or later.
Hyperic HQ - an advanced system and application management platform
Hyperic SIGAR - System Information Gatherer And Reporter (Review Request)
Icecat - Free replacement of Firefox browser
icon - Icon programming language srpm here
iFolder - requires simias (Review Request )
igal2 is a Perl-based program that can generate an entire online picture show (HTML slides, thumbnails and index page included) with just one command line invocation.
imghist is a Python program for generating useful and attractive hue histograms for image analyis. Requires pypng.
Imule - Anonymous version of Emule, through the I2p protocol. sources and binaries here
indefero - Indefero Software Forge - Beautiful simplicity in bug tracking and code review.
Indico - A Python-based event organizer web application (GPL).
InstallJammer - InstallJammer is a multiplatform GUI installer designed to be completely cross-platform
iperf3 - is a new implementation of iperf from scratch, with the goal of a smaller, simpler code base, and a library version of the functionality that can be used in other programs.(Review Request )
iTalc - Interactive Tool for teachers, OpenSource classroom-management, GPL Review Request
iTask-NG - A taskbar and app-launcher dock based on engage, which makes use of composite, but can also be used without.
itools - A python library that includes several useful tools, such as an ODF anonymizer that can be used to sanitize confidential documents before attaching them to bug reports
jailkit - chroot jail utilities (Review Request)
Jacker A MIDI tracker for JACK. Beta stage.
~~JDownloader - JDownloader is an open source, platform independent download manager, and written completely in Java. ( Review Request )~~ Cannot be packaged for Fedora, depends on many non-free Java libraries
JFractionLab Program to practise doing fractions with graphical feedback
Jing - Jing is James Clarks' RELAX-NG XML schema validator. Example RPMs at authors site, works with gcj.
jMemorize - Java application that manages flashcards by the famous Leitner system
JPEG2PDF - Creates a PDF out of a directory of JPEG/JPG-images. Very fast and stable; should be easy to package.(The homepage is dead, anyone knows whether the project is still alive?)
julia - Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing
Julius - "Julius" is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder software for speech-related researchers and developers
KDE4 Service Menu Editor - Simplifies administration via GUI
kbfx - kbfx is an alternative to the classical K-Menu button and it's menu. (The page is dead)
KDevelop4 - Major rewrite based on Qt4/KDE4 with a powerful language architecture. Under heavy development and currently in Beta phase, recommended for C++ or PHP development with CMake or custom Makefiles as their build system. Recommended for Linux (all other OS might work, but are not tested yet).
KForge - For managing software and knowledge projects.
Kiwix - Offline wikipedia reader, zim file reasder. GPLV3
KLogic - KLogic is an application for building and simulating digital circuits easily
Knowledge Tree - Community edition: a PHP based GPL V3 Content Managements System (source code at: Source Forge)
Knotter - Celtic knot creator, cool creative app. GPL V3 more info
Kommute - Linux client for the MUTE anonymous P2P network
Komodo Edit - Free and Open source multi-language editor
KPrayertime - Islamic Prayer Times Applet

L-M

l7-filter - L7-filter is a classifier for Linux's Netfilter that identifies packets based on application layer data. (Review Request)
lessfs - A high performance inline data deduplicating filesystem for Linux. Review Request RHBZ #530473
Liaison - Liaison is a software tool combining some well known open source software tools like MoinMoin, Subversion and Bugzilla to help software developers to collaborate.
libchipcard - A library for easy access to smart cards (chipcards). Usually in combination with Gwenhywfar and AqBanking.
libMicro - is a portable set of microbenchmarks that many Solaris engineers used during Solaris 10 development to measure the performance of various system and library calls(If Linux is faster it's a Solaris bug). Review Request RHBZ #648053
libnetfilter_acct - is the userspace library providing interface to extended accounting infrastructure.Review Request
libnetfilter_cttimeout - is the userspace library that provides the programming interface to the fine-grain connection tracking timeout infrastructure. Review request
libpam-poldi PAM module allowing authentication using a OpenPGP smartcard. This PAM module will allow you to login, screenlock and validate to services using your GnuPG smartcard. (sorry for cross-distro reference but i googled for so long without finding any other good source.)
libSBML Programming library to read, write, manipulate, translate, and validate SBML files and data streams.
LibSRS Library to implement Sender Rewriting Scheme, a part of the SPF/SRS protocol pair.
liburcu- userspace RCU (read-copy-update) library. This data synchronization library provides read-side access which scales linearly with the number of cores. It does so by allowing multiples copies of a given data structure to live at the same time, and by monitoring the data structure accesses to detect grace periods after which memory reclamation is possible.
liferay - An open source Java based portal application.
Lightworks - is a non-linear editing system for video.
~~link-monitor-applet - Link Monitor Applet is a GNOME Panel Applet displaying the round-trip time to a set of hosts in a bar graph.~~ F15 won't include support for GNOME Panel Applets and this program requires setuid which is not allowed in Fedora
liquidwar6 - multiplayer wargame, sequel of Liquid War 5 (which is already in Fedora, but LW5 and LW6 are really different packages, complete rewrite)
listadmin - A command line interface for Mailman administration.
livebackup - LiveBackup is a framework to create live-cd's from installed Linux systems
~~lives - Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful (foreign f9 package exists on SourceForge)~~ Cannot be included in Fedora due to dependency on ffmpeg.
LNXHC - Linux Health Checker for s390x
lldpd - 802.1ab (LLDP) implementation, .spec here
log4cplus - Logging Framework for C++ - currently under review
LPRng, is an enhanced, extended, and portable implementation of the Berkeley LPR print spooler functionality. No so bulky/convoluted as cups.
lprof - ICC Color Profiler. This will help the Fedora Design team produce for-print artwork. (Needs some work. See Bug 851641)
Lustre - Lustre is a parallel distributed file system, generally used for large scale cluster computing. SRPMs here.
Magento - Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control.
MapGuide - web-based platform for developing and deployment web mapping applications and geospatial web services.
MariaDB - An Open Source; enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. They have RPMs (no SRPM's though): [2]
MATE - A fork of Gnome 2.3 for F16, F17
Memlockd - is a daemon that locks basic system login files,binary and library, into memory. Then if a machine starts paging heavily the chance of being able to login successfully is significantly increased.
mdp-toolkit - Modular toolkit for Data Processing (MDP) is a Python data processing framework.
Mercurial Eclipse - hg Eclipse plugin
MeTA1 - is a message transfer agent, next generation of Sendmail.
mosbench - is a set of application benchmarks designed to measure scalability of operating systems. It consists of applications that previous work has shown not to scale well on Linux and applications that are designed for parallel execution and are kernel intensive.
~~Mesk - A PyGtk+ audio player~~ Cannot include in Fedora, has built in MPEG decoder
MindTouch - Enterprise Content Management from Novell. There is a repo and installation instructions here. Licenses here.
MIT/GNU Scheme - an implementation of the Scheme programming language, providing an interpreter, compiler, source-code debugger, integrated Emacs-like editor, and a large runtime library.
mixmaster Anonymous remailer client and server
MOC console audio player for Linux/UNIX - /*it has optional dependency on ffmpeg.*/
modRana GPS navigation software
Mondo Rescue inclusion - Review Request
MoBlock - A Peerguardian compatible connection blocker
Metasploit Framework - Metasploit provides useful information and tools for penetration testers, security researchers, and IDS signature developers. This project was created to provide information on exploit techniques and to create a functional knowledgebase for exploit developers and security professionals. The tools and information on this site are provided for legal security research and testing purposes only. Metasploit is an open source project managed by Rapid7.
mpd MusicPD Home Stereo Server using ogg and flac for mpc, gmpc, ncmpc, and many others including ampache. bugs at musicpd.org/mantis irc=mpd MP3 is optional. Needed for always on audio and when the server is rebooted, it picks up the queue where it left off. yum search mpd returns about 20 results, so there are already many existing packages that use it. The hard part is making it selinux compatible.
MPH 2B Damase Public domain font that includes scripts such as Deseret and Shavian.
mtasc - ActionScript 2 compiler generating flash srpm here

N-O

n2n - open source GPL3 layer-two peer-to-peer virtual private network - Hamachi like easy networking
NagiosGrapher - Nagios Stats graphing.
Nagstamon - Nagios status monitor which takes place in systray or on desktop (GNOME, KDE, Windows) as floating statusbar.
NAT-PT - Network Address Translation, Protocol Translation IPv4/IPv6 - allows IPv6-only networks to connect to IPv4-only networks (based on RFC 2766). Per this go6.net blog post, NAT-PT is dead.
~~nautilussvn - Subversion commands integrated into the GNOME Nautilus file manager.~~ Succeeded by RabbitVCS (in F12)
Navit - Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine.
neatx - Open Source NX server, similar to the commercial NX server from NoMachine
netperf - A benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking.
newlib is a C library intended for use on embedded systems.
nfacct - is the command line tool to create/retrieve/delete accounting objects(iptables). Review request
Ninja, a small build system similar to make.
nmon - is a performance Monitor for Linux.
noteedit - Free music score editor. NOTE: seems to be dead - last version in 2006. Also requires TSE3 which also has been dead for some years.
numpydoc - tools (python-sphinx extension) to build documentation formatted in numpydoc format used by many python projects
OBM OBM is enterprise-class messaging and collaboration platform for workgroup or enterprises with many thousands users. OBM includes Groupware, messaging server, CRM, LDAP, Windows Domain, smartphone and PDA synchronization… Note: Uses stock services and ,hence, makes it less invasive. License:GPL
ofono - telephony host stack for embedded/mobile and desktop systems based on Linux.
Okawix - Offline wikipedia Reader. GPL
OnTV - A TV scheduler using XMLTV backends
OneSwarm - Bittorrent client (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854889)
OpenBUGS - Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling software
OpenGroupware - Groupware software
opennx - OpenNX is an OSS drop-in replacement for Nomachine's nxclient
~~OpenShot - A non linear easy-to-use video editor. Python based, pure GPL 3.~~ -> Cannot be included since it uses the MLT framework, can be packaged at RPM Fusion. Accepted in RPMFusion (993).
~~OpenOffice Presentation Minimizer - reduces the size of ooimpress documents, requires java~~ This is already available as openoffice.org-presentation-minimizer (and it doesn't require java)
OpenProj - A desktop replacement of Microsoft Project
otcomp - OpenType layout compiler, needed to build some FLOSS fonts
oyepa - a tagging file system (a fake but working one)

P

PAIDA - PAIDA is pure Python scientific analysis package
~~paint-mono - An unofficial effort to port Paint.NET 3.0 to Linux using Mono~~ - Cannot be included since Paint is partly licensed under a non-commercial license
pam_script - PAM module for executing scripts (orphan)
Partclone Partclone provides utilities to back up and restore used-blocks of a partition and it is designed for higher compatibility of the file system by using existing library, e.g. e2fslibs is used to read and write the ext2 partition. Partclone supports ext2,ext3 and ext4, reiserfs, reiser4,XFs, JfS, Windows: Fat32, Ntfs, MACOS: HFS +, Freebsd: UFS2 and ESX: VMFS. The licenses is GPL
PayMaster Payroll aymaster was developed in New Zealand to match the needs of both small and large organisations. Utilising an easily customisable back-end, that calculates the results to help meet the diverse requirements of your specific payroll. Complex tax laws, leave, varying pay rates, allowances, superannuation are just some of the things our payroll system can handle. It can also handle cost accounting by analysing and reporting wage costs to multiple branches and departments, different pay rates, etc. Full reporting features are available.
PCITOP - a PCI bus utilization monitoring tool.
PEAR HTML_Template_Flexy - An extremely powerful Tokenizer driven Template engine
PEAR MDB2_Driver_mysqli - PEAR mysqli MDB2 driver
PEDA and Peda examples - for FEL spin - GPLv3 Professional(Portable,Peter's) Electronic Design Automation tool
Pencil - A UI design / sketching tool, Mozilla-based
perl-CDDB_get - Read the CDDB entry for an audio CD in your drive review request
perl-Qt4 - perl binding for Qt4 it's two perl modules QtGui and QtCore
Photivo Photivo is a free and open source photo processor. It handles your RAW files as well as your bitmap files in a non-destructive 16 bit processing pipe with gimp workflow integration and batch mode. [hpejakle] is working on this
PhotoFilmStrip Create slideshow movies from photos
php-pecl-syck, php-pecl-syck php-pecl-syck
pligg is a digg like CMS that uses PHP and MySQL.
pluf - a php webapp framework
pmacct - flexible traffic-accounting with packet-capturing, netflow and sflow (import, export, logging to DB, ...)
~~PPTP-Config - PPTP - config program part of the pptp. Already has FC6 packages.~~ This is depreciated the author recommends networkmanager use.
Poptop - The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Server for Linux
prescript - Utility for extracting text from PostScript files srpm here
~~Prettify Automake - pretty automake output~~ Functionality now exists natively in automake as 'silent-rules'
ProjectCenter is the GNUStep Project's answer to XCode, used for developing, managing, and building GNUStep (Cocoa) based projects
pwdutils - is a replacement of shadow-utils, but it can also modify the information stored in NIS, NIS+, or LDAP.
Pyjamas - web tookit for python
python-dap - Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP) implementation in python srpm here
~~PySDM a Storage Device Manager that allows full customization of hard disk mountpoints without manually access to fstab.(Review Request)~~
PyTraffic - A free implementation of the Rush Hour puzzle.
python-egenix-mxdatetime - date and time handling routines for Python

Q-S

QuickSoundFontManager - A gui for (a)sfxload / fluidsync to quick load several SF2 soundfonts in a EMU10k chip
Rasmol - RasMol is a computer program written for molecular graphics visualization intended and used primarily for the depiction and exploration of biological macromolecule structures, such as those found in the Protein Data Bank.
Rasterbator - The Rasterbator is a .Net(Mono) application which creates rasterized versions of images. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into enormous (or smaller, if you prefer) posters.
Rbot - Ruby IRC Bot framework.
runit - A UNIX process supervisor popular in the Chef community
Remuco - a Remote control server, for mobile phones, similar to Bemused and Salling Clicker
REMnux: A Ubuntu based Linux Distribution for Reverse-Engineering Malware. Package anything that's not in Fedora.
robofab - Python library with objects that deal with data usually associated with fonts and type design. Required to convert font sources from the proprietary FontLab VFB format to UFO (that Fontforge can read)
Rodent - filemanager / graphic shell
Rogg - xiph.org tool to evaluate and manipulate ogg theora files
rnv - RELAX NG Compact Syntax validator
ROTgui, a utility for screen rotation for wacom tablet laptops like the IBM x61T and x41T (the Fedora design team will love you for packaging this!)
rotoscope - a free software rotoscoping application. Dead ~~Review Request~~
rovclock - ATI Radeon over/underclocking utility - srpm here
rox-filer - Rox file manager srpm here
RStudio - RStudio is a new R IDE with excellent features for a wide spectrum of users. -- waiting for the google web toolkit to be available in fedora.
safte-monitor, Linux SAF-TE SCSI enclosure monitor. It reads disk enclosure status information from SAF-TE capable enclosures (SCSI Accessible Fault Tolerant Enclosures). SAF-TE is common on many intelligent SCSI disk enclosures and some rackmount servers with SCSI hotswap drive bays.
scsirastools,SCSI RAS Tools for Disk Management.The tools in this project were designed to add to the Serviceability of disk devices under Linux so that the system does not have to be rebooted or taken out of service to perform common maintenance or service functions.
Sentinella - Sentinella is a KDE4 application that watches your system activity and, in consequence, takes an action that you've chosen.
Scratch - "Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web." ~~Cannot be included in Fedora includes MP3 support~~ MP3 support is via a Squeak plugin and is not integral. OLPC ships without it and I hope we can too.
Screenlets - Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as "the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk". Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, ... the possibilities are endless.
Seed - JavaScript bindings for GNOME, using WebKit's JavaScriptCore
SFLphone - a robust standards-compliant enterprise softphone, for desktop and embedded systems. It is designed to handle several hundreds of calls a day. It has a GTK+ and QT interface, integrates well with GNOME and PulseAudio. Supports SIP and IAX2 (Asterisk).
Sigil - Excellent epub editor for ebook creation.
simon-listens - Is an open-source speech recognition program and replaces the mouse and keyboard.
sispmctl - Package for controlling GEMBIRD (m)SiS-PM power controllers.
slimrat - Slimrat is a command-line and graphical application for automated downloading from file hosters like Rapidshare, Megaupload, Depositfiles and many more.
slurm - cluster toolkit (already has a maintained SPEC file)
smuxi - IRC client & IRC proxy, GTK+ based
~~Songbird - Media Player/Browser (Depends pretty heavily on mp3, flash support, ogg support appears broken, other than that some media player and browser functionality exists) (Review Request)~~ Upstream doesn't support Linux anymore.
spacenav - The spacenav project provides a free, compatible alternative, to the proprietary 3Dconnexion device driver and SDK, for their 3D input devices
Spectrum-Tools - set of utilities for using various spectrum analyzer hardware. It supports the suite of Wi-Spy devices (original, 24x, 24x2, DBX, DBX2, 900, 24i) by Metageek LLC and the Ubertooth.
speechd - Device-independent speech synthesis layer (perhaps useful for OLPC?)
speedcontrol - Small utility to limit DVD drive speed, since most DVD readers sound like lawn mowers at full speed which ruins movie playing experience
SQuirreL SQL - Graphical Java program that will allow you to view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the data in tables, issue SQL commands
stardict-fr-academy-1935 - 8th edition of the French Academy dictionnary, in stardict format (1935)
StatusNet desktop client - is a multi-platform Open Source client for connecting to StatusNet installations.
Stet - is a free software package for gathering comments about a text document via a webpage
strongSwan - ipsec implementation with major support of IKEv2 (Review Request)
Stylus Toolbox - A graphical frontend for managing the functions of Epson Ink Jet printers - including checking ink levels and print head cleaning/alignment. (Review request)
swfmill - xml2swf and swf2xml processor with import functionalities srpm here
Sympa - Mailing list server Review Request
system-config-control Central control panel for system-config-* tools.

T-W

Tagaini Jisho - a free, open-source Japanese dictionary and kanji lookup that aims at becoming your Japanese study assistant.
Textpattern - a CMS popular with some web designers. It's GPL and is LAMP-y.
Thinkfan - A simple fan control program
TinyXML++ - A very nice, modern C++ interface to TinyXML. MIT license. Nice software; painful, obscure build system.
Tipp10 - A 10 finger write trainer (Has no configure script and a MakeFile generated by qmake for QT on windows)
TPTP - Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform
Trang - Trang is James Clark's multi-format schema converter based on RELAX-NG. Example RPMs available at authors site and has been checked with gcj.
toshutils (includes GUI) or toshset (CL only) - Allows users to control Toshiba hardware
TrueCrypt - Free open-source disk encryption software for Linux. Version 5 now includes a WxWidgets Gui and uses Fuse instead of kernel modules for the filesystem parts. Thus, inclusion to Fedora should be possible. Requires some fixing in Main/Main.make to build against Fedora's WxWidgets. Not 'free open-source', i.e. legal would block this. See spot's comments 1 2 on TrueCrypt's version 2.5 license. The issues mentioned with section VI.2 and VI.3 in spot's emails may have been fixed in version 2.7 of the license. The issue mentioned with section III.1.2 and III.2 does not seem to have been fixed at all. (available from RpmFusion)
TuxShop point of sale and retail management application.
TV-Browser A java application to view the current tv program Review Request
~~TwoLame A MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 encoder.~~ Probably would be blocked based on Spot's comment [3]
ufsutils Utilities to manage the UFS filesystem, mostly used in BSD or derived operating systems. This include FFS, UFS and UFS2.
ulatencyd Scriptable daemon daemon that controls how the Linux kernel will spend it's resources on the running processes.
Unico Gtk+ Theming Engine Unico is a Gtk+ engine that aims to be the more complete yet powerful theming engine for Gtk+ 3.0 and newer. It's used in several Gtk + 3.0 themes
Unicode Character Database Unicode.org UNIDATA files are used by many packages (perl, gucharmap, etc) in private-copy mode. A common package would be cleaner technically and legally. - Review Request
unp - debian/ubuntu script for uncompressing archives bugzilla request
uPdf - A tool to write and paint to an existing pdf file. uPdf can insert pages of another pdf, insert new pages, remove and extract pages, rotate pages, paste an image in the existing pdf, and much more.
~~uperf - a network performance tool, developed by the Performance Applications Engineering group at Sun Microsystems, that supports modelling and replay of various networking patterns. -> uperf~~
urfkill - For the laptop and mobile devices users, the management of the radio killswitches is important for the connectivity and power consumption. HAL used to take care of this job, but it is now deprecated. The urfkill project is created to fill the gap and to provide more flexible configuration for the rfkill-related function keys.
Vagalume - A Last.fm client for Gnome and Maemo. Review Request (failed) (available from Livna)
Vigor - XMMS plugin that acts like Clippy. Fun!
VNCSnapshot - VNC Snapshot is a command-line program for VNC. It will save a JPEG image of the VNC server's screen.
Visual Python - a Python module that offers real-time 3D output, and is easily usable by novice programmers. Depends on non-free software (Polygon).
[4] - Wavelet denoise Gimp plugin
WTP - Eclipse Webtools Project (JSP, HTML, JavaScript, XML, etc.) (Effort to build this package are ongoing)
Wine-doors - an application designed to make installing windows software on Linux (Review Request (dropped))
Webmin (web-front end to shorewall) - Review Request (dropped) (NB: Webmin had a rather doubtful security record in the past -- NilsPhilippsen)
WideStudio an open source, Integrated Development Environment for desktop applications
Wikidot an open source wiki server/wiki farm.
wNutrak (downloadable from http://www.anpo.republika.pl/download.html) is an UNIQUE tool for downloading data from some modern Garmin GPSes (such as Garmin nuvi 760) and converting it from proprietary .bin format to standard .gpx format. This tool is critical for the free OpenstreetMap project, in order to collect GPS traces from project's contributors.

X-Z

xdm-xsessions - Xdm session related utilities srpm here
XMIND - EPL/LGPL Licensed MindMap Software.
xmlittre - Authoritative 19th century French dictionnary, in stardict format Review Request.
xonotic - Xonotic is a fast paced free, open-source first person shooter licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Xpra - X Persistent Remote Applications, is 'screen for X'. It allows you to run X programs, usually on a remote host, direct their display to your local machine.
xProcess, for project management and process improvement.
xtrabackup - Online backup tool for MySQL/InnoDB -outdated srpm here - check out upstream srpms
XtreemFS - XtreemFS is a distributed and replicated file system for the Cloud. Distributed under the BSD. Here's a link to their RPMs [5].
youthree - youthree Highly experimental program to disable/enable U3 and write a CD image to U3 capable flash drives.
yum-grouppackagetype - A plugin for yum to specify which package types within a package group should be installed when using yum groupinstall (useful for web walkthroughs)
zenoss - Open Source Monitoring Tool. Dead ~~Review Request~~.
zpb-ttf - ZPB-TTF is a TrueType file parser that provides an interface for reading typographic metrics, glyph outlines, and other information.
zsync - smart rsync. zlib discussion

Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) WishList

EPEL Package Wish List

OLPC Wishlist

This list is now being maintained at OLPC/Packages_for_F11.

Fedora Font Packages WishList

The Fedora font wishlist is hosted there.

Fonts in Fedora
The Fonts SIG takes loving care of Fedora fonts. Please join this special interest group if you are interested in creating, improving, packaging, or just suggesting a font. Any help will be appreciated.

Fedora Perl Packages Wishlist

Edit at Perl Wishlist.

You can always see the current list of open Perl review tickets (bugs) here.

Catalyst

~~Task::Catalyst 4.02 @ RHBZ #742671~~

~~Catalyst::Model::Adaptor - Use a plain class as a Catalyst model @ RHBZ #742538~~
~~Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::HTTP - HTTP Basic and Digest authentication for Catalyst @ RHBZ #742549~~
~~Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::DBIC - Store your sessions via DBIx::Class @ RHBZ #742555~~
- ~~Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::Delegate - Delegate session storage to an application model object @ RHBZ #742548~~
~~CatalystX::Profile - Profile your Catalyst application with Devel::NYTProf @ RHBZ #742557~~
- ~~CatalystX::InjectComponent - Inject components into your Catalyst application @ RHBZ #742552~~
~~CatalystX::REPL - Read::eval::print::loop for debugging your Catalyst application @ RHBZ #742559~~
- ~~Carp::REPL - Read::eval::print::loop on die and/or warn @ RHBZ #742556~~
  - ~~Devel::StackTrace::WithLexicals - Generate stack traces with lexical variables @ RHBZ #742550~~
~~CatalystX::SimpleLogin - Provide a simple Login controller which can be reused @ RHBZ #742560~~
- ~~Catalyst::ActionRole::ACL - User role::based authorization action class @ RHBZ #742542~~
- ~~HTML::FormHandler - HTML forms using Moose @ RHBZ #742543~~
- ~~MooseX::RelatedClassRoles - Apply roles to a class related to yours @ RHBZ #742545~~
- ~~CatalystX::InjectComponent - Inject components into your Catalyst application @ RHBZ #742552~~

Misc

Bricolage - Content Management System (CPAN: Bundle::Bricolage)
Alzabo - Data modelling tool (CPAN: Alzabo) - The web page does exist anymore, the distribution on the CPAN is abandoned.
~~Encode::HanExtra - Extra encodings for Encode (for w3c-markup-validator) @ RHBZ #759758~~
~~Encode::JIS2K - Extra encodings for Encode (for w3c-markup-validator) @ RHBZ #759760~~
IMC - Idealx Management Console - upstream vanished.
- All dependencies should already be in Fedora.
- StevenPritchard has put some work into this already.
~~PlRPC - A bundle to install PlRPC-Server, Client and prerequisites.~~
~~NetPacket::SpanningTree - Assemble and disassemble IEEE 802.3 LLC protocol packets. @ RHBZ #573917~~
~~Inline::Python - Place python code inline with perl, or use python classes/functions within perl @ RHBZ #1234791~~
~~App::Rad - Rapid (and easy!) creation of command line applications @ RHBZ #1415201~~
Net::Sharktools - Use Wireshark's packet dissection engine from Perl (draft specfile); doesn't work with Wireshark 1.6; works with Wireshark 1.4
~~Method::Signatures - To make subroutine calls easier to read RHBZ #832810~~
~~MCE - Many-core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities RHBZ #1162531~~
~~ZeroMQ - Perl wrapper of the 0MQ message passing library. @ RHBZ #747674~~
~~Dist-Zilla-Plugins-CJM - Additional useful Dist::Zilla plugins @ RHBZ #1416158~~
~~Data-Dump-Color - We already package Data::Dump, this is even better. RHBZ #1140223~~
ALSA-MIDI - the ALSA library, plus some interface functions

Dependencies

Bio::SCF dependency of already packaged perl-Bio-Graphics

Fedora Games Packages WishList

If you want to add games to the list do so on the Fedora Games SIG WishList .

Fedora Astronomy Packages WishList

If you want to add astronomy related packages to the list do so on the Fedora Astronomy SIG WishList .

Web Hosting Control Panels

Analysis of Free software web hosting control panels available for packaging in Fedora.

Bioinformatics WishList

Edit at SIGs/SciTech/BioinformaticsWishList .

Autodock Vina - Tool for drug discovery, molecular docking and virtual screening. There's a package under http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/loveshack/livhpc/
~~COPASI - Simulation and analysis of biochemical networks and their dynamics, supports SBML standard for models~~ See COPASI
Cytoscape - Platform for the analysis and visualization of complex networks, in particular molecular interaction networks and biological pathways
GENtle - DNA restriction analysis and cloning tool similar to VectorNTI
Integrative Genomics Viewer - java-based graphical genomics viewer (licensed under GPLv2)
MIRA - Genome fragment assembler for sequencing projects classified as 'hard' due to high number of similar repeats. Uses non-free jlfgr -- see Debian packaging.
NCBI BLAST and other tools - The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity between sequences.
- ncbi-blast+ packaged by jkaluza - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999383
NCBI C Toolkit - NCBI libraries and tools for biology applications srpm here
NCBI C++ Toolkit - a new generation of NCBI libraries and tools for biology
pyQPCR - qPCR analysis tool
Staden - sequence handling and analysis software developed at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Taverna - Tool for automation of experimental workflows.
The WFDB Software Package - Software for viewing, analyzing, and creating recordings of physiologic signals

Healthcare WishList

Formal Methods WishList

The paper "High Assurance (for Security or Safety) and Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS)... with Lots on Formal Methods" by David A. Wheeler lists lots of tools that can help develop "high assurance" software, particularly "formal methods" tools. A related site, Open Proofs, maintains a list of promising FLOSS formal methods tools and their packaging status. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Some of these tools include:

Alloy (from MIT)
ACL2
PVS
BLAST, at http://mtc.epfl.ch/software-tools/blast/ (don't use the obsolete version at Berkeley)
HOL 4
Isabelle
HOL Lite
Gandalf
NuSMV
DiVinE
KeY

Additional CAS tools, like Axiom, Yacas, and SAGE would be helpful too.

A number have already been done, including Coq, Why / Caduceus / Krakatoa, tex-zfuzz, and minisat2.

See the Wheeler paper (above) and the Open Proofs site for project URLs, license info, what they do, etc.

Fedora KDE Packages WishList

KDE Package Wish List

How to add a package

If you're not already a Fedora maintainer, but interested in creating a package on this wish list, see PackageMaintainers/Join for the general process, and PackageMaintainers/CreatingPackageHowTo for the nuts-and-bolts of how to create a package. Packaging/Guidelines describes the guidelines Fedora packages must follow.

The special interest groups may provide additional guidelines and help for processing the packages posted on their wishlist.

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 * [http://sispmctl.sourceforge.net/ sispmctl] - Package for controlling GEMBIRD (m)SiS-PM power controllers.
 * [http://code.google.com/p/slimrat/ slimrat] - Slimrat is a command-line and graphical application for automated downloading from file hosters like Rapidshare, Megaupload, Depositfiles and many more.
+* [https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/ slurm] - cluster toolkit (already has a maintained SPEC file)
 * [http://www.smuxi.org/page/Download smuxi] - IRC client & IRC proxy, GTK+ based
 * <s>[http://www.songbirdnest.com/ Songbird]  - Media Player/Browser (Depends pretty heavily on mp3, flash support, ogg support appears broken, other than that some media player and browser functionality exists) ([https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453422 Review Request])</s> Upstream doesn't support Linux anymore.

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