Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week47

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 47/2007

Most important happenings

• reminder: the EPEL meetings (and of course the mailing lists) are open to everyone; if you want to help EPEL by changing or improving something come join us, your voice will be heard; and if it comes to votings you opinion and your vote will count as well, even if you are not in the EPEL Steering Committee or in the SIG!

• quaid writes in https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-November/msg00111.html :

We've done a fair job of attracting Fedora packagers to EPEL.

Now we need to get all the other audiences to get involved, as package
users, packagers, testers, and general community members:

* General end-users
* Academia and scientific users
* Software and hardware vendors
* General corporate users

I'll take the lead on this task, but boy do I need help and ideas.

Can we cook up a list of requirements or goals, so we can take some
ideas to f-marketing-l to discuss publicity etc.?
[...] 

Mailing list

Noteworthy discussions

• Lot's of discussion about shipping mock 0.8.9 for EPEL-5 in https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-November/msg00078.html, which in between resulted in it being shipped

Meeting

Next Meeting

20071205 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting. (ten days from now)

Last weeks meeting

Log:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-November/msg00121.html

Attendees:

• dgilmore
• knurd
• mmcgrath
• nirik
• quaid
• wolfy

Summary:

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/NextTestingStableMove testing stable move for EL4? -- nirik

• nirik> | I pulled a local mirror of the epel4 stuff, but I haven't tested yet... ; sorry for delaying. ;(

• nirik will try to do it over the weekend; knurd will help if needed

• knurd> | I wondered if we normally should send a mail to the maintainer of the effected packages? then they get a chance to say "don't push foo, because it has serious bugs" ;

nirik> | perhaps a list of what would be pushed on the list and then a day or two for someone to say they don't want to push?

• We'll consider something like the above for the future; but for this EPEL4 push we just continue

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/RhelMetaData -- stahnma

• skipped; feedback from people what they want sill wanted (mailing list or directly on the task page in the wiki, which is linked from the schedule)

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc -- RHEL 5.1 (and 4.6) for the builders?

• we'll do it once centos 4.6/5.1 is out?; dgilmore will prepare it over the next few days. Many thanks for your help dgilmore!

• Free discussion around EPEL

• nirik> | FYI, I _still_ don't have my clamav rpm ready, but again I hope to work on it this weekend/holiday

• knurd> | are we happy with the state of EPEL?

mmcgrath> | we've been using it in Fedora since before it was official :) its been great.

nirik> | yeah, I think so... lots of nice new branches in the last weeks... all the bugzilla perl rpms...

knurd> | I'd had hoped more people would become active with EPEL administrativa ; e.g. more people in the meetings

• quaid> | I don't mind remaining involved, but I'm feeling a bit like dead wood :) ... my skillz were most at use early on in putting people and processes together ; so, what I was wondering is if there is a need to refresh my seat with someone new?

nirik> | well, we don't have many people at all interested it seems like right now...

quaid> | nirik: I don't mind keeping the body count up and keeping an eye on things; just don't want to be in the way of someone else ;

nirik> | if you are interested in stepping down, perhaps you could work on firing up more interested people to attend meetings first. ;)

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors: 141

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 819

Number of binary packages: 1516

There are 16 new Packages:

• debootstrap | Bootstrap a basic Debian GNU/Linux system
• ikarus | An incremental optimizing compiler for R6RS Scheme
• perl-DateTime | Date and time objects
• perl-DateTime-Format-Mail | Convert between DateTime and RFC2822/822 formats
• perl-DateTime-Format-W3CDTF | Parse and format W3CDTF datetime strings
• perl-Email-Abstract | Unified interface to mail representations
• perl-Email-Date | Find and format date headers
• perl-Email-Reply | Reply to an email message
• perl-Email-Send | Module for sending email
• perl-Mail-Box | Manage a mailbox, a folder with messages
• perl-Template-Toolkit | Template processing system
• perl-Test-Output | Utilities to test STDOUT and STDERR messages
• perl-Text-Autoformat | Automatic text wrapping and reformatting
• perl-XML-RSS | Perl module for managing RDF Site Summary (RSS) files
• qiv | Quick Image Viewer
• smstools | Tools to send and receive short messages through GSM modems or mobile phones

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 447

Number of binary packages: 895

There are 3 new Packages:

• debootstrap | Bootstrap a basic Debian GNU/Linux system
• qiv | Quick Image Viewer
• smstools | Tools to send and receive short messages through GSM modems or mobile phones

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