Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week10

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 10/2008 2008/03/02 -> 2008/03/08

Most important happenings

• Week was mostly quiet. Looking to add more packages to get rt3 in place

Mailing list

Noteworthy discussions

• Very little discussion on the mailling list this week.
• More EPEL mirrors signed up. I need to find out how to report the exact number.
• GOAL: Get rt3 in place.
• GOAL: Find a way to request input from more EL customers on what they need.
• GOAL: Need to research how to handle open-source items in RHX that do not meet EL due to patching of core items.

Meeting

Next Meeting

Wednesday, 20080130 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

Last weeks meeting

There was no meeting scheduled for the past week.

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors:175

We welcome 1 new contributors: buytenh

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 1142

Number of binary packages: 1841

There are 16 new Packages:

• apg | Automated Password Generator for random password generation
• certmaster | Remote certificate distribution framework
• cpdup | Filesystem mirroring utility
• flumotion | Flumotion - the Fluendo Streaming Server
• perl-Crypt-DES | Perl DES encryption module
• perl-Math-Symbolic | Symbolic calculations
• perl-Module-Info | Information about Perl modules
• perl-Module-Signature | CPAN signature management utilities and modules
• perl-Net-SNMP | Object oriented interface to SNMP
• perl-Test-Distribution | Perform tests on all modules of a distribution
• perl-Test-File | Test file attributes
• perl-Test-Prereq | Check if Makefile.PL has the right pre-requisites
• perl-XML-Generator-DBI | Generate SAX events from SQL queries
• perl-XML-SAX-Writer | SAX2 Writer
• php-pecl-mailparse | PECL package for parsing and working with email messages
• rkhunter | A host-based tool to scan for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 670 Number of binary packages: 1087 There are 6 new Packages:

• apg | Automated Password Generator for random password generation
• lighttpd | Lightning fast webserver with light system requirements
• perl-Module-Signature | CPAN signature management utilities and modules
• perl-Net-SNMP | Object oriented interface to SNMP
• php-pecl-mailparse | PECL package for parsing and working with email messages
• rkhunter | A host-based tool to scan for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits

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