Archive:Packaging Survey May 2009

Links:

• http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=221294
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-May/msg00440.html

We have a packaging wishlist with a large number of packages, many of them obsolete. To find out software Fedora users were using and missing out in the repository, a survey was conducted in Fedora forum, mailing lists and some linux user groups. The result is provided here for convenience.

Wishlist

Software	Description	upstream url	review request/ rpms / comments
ebox	web based administration tool similar to webmin	http://ebox-platform.com/	debian focused upstream but willing to cooperating with interested developers
CSSC	GNU sccs replacement	http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cssc/	actively maintained but stable. Package for slightly old version available at https://cryregarder.com/CSSC-1.1.1-2.src.rpm
remind	reminder - alternative to evolution appointments	http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind	already in Fedora from Fedora Core 6
qtmess	popups	http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/qtmess.html	small utility
wicd	alternative to NetworkManager	http://wicd.net/
mbrowse	a graphical SNMP MIB browser	http://www.kill-9.org/mbrowse/
dbacl	Powerful text classifier	http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/	can be combined with procmail for spam filtering
chan capi		http://www.chan-capi.org/	chan-capi allows the Asterisk to use ISDN CAPI interface
JMRI		http://jmri.sourceforge.net/	OpenJDK needs to have java async communications interface. verify this
calender server	caldev server	http://calendarserver.org/
ferret	Ferret is an interactive computer visualization for oceanographers	http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/
analog	www logfile analyser and summary report generator	http://www.analog.cx/
tork	Anonymity Manager	http://tork.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php	uses tor
cron-o-meter	exercise calculator	http://spaz.ca/cronometer/	java software
kxstich	KXStitch is a program that lets you create cross stitch patterns and charts	http://kxstitch.sourceforge.net/
moserial	serial terminal	http://live.gnome.org/moserial	vala based. mjc AT avtechpulse.com is interested in packaging
unknown horizon	2D real-time strategy stimulation on economy and city building	http://www.unknown-horizons.org/	http://packman.links2linux.de/package/UnknownHorizon contains Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 sound which is not FSF free
pokerth	Texas Hold'Em Poker	http://www.pokerth.net/	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502851
freemind	mind mapping	http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page	java based
agedu	web based disk usage calculator	http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/agedu/	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502101
arista	video transcoder		https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502477
transmageddon	video transcoder		Rahul Sundaram has a spec. waiting on a new release of pyobject2 to fix a bug
root	data analysis framework	http://root.cern.ch/drupal/	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451744
joomla	content management system	http://www.joomla.org/
ytree	ncurses based file manager	http://www.han.de/~werner/ytree.html	small and similar to mc
gtapecalc	desktop calculator with paper like output	http://gtapecalc.sourceforge.net/	Rahul Sundaram is working on this
cmu common lisp	lisp	http://www.cons.org/cmucl/	is available for Fedora but only for 32-bit systems. code is not ported to 64-bit systems yet.
dans guardian	proxy filter	http://dansguardian.org/
pannini	perspective tool	http://sourceforge.net/projects/pvqt/	Ankur Sinha is working on this
celtx	media pre-production	http://celtx.com/	Netscape License - acceptable
inform fiction		http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html or http://gnome-inform7.sourceforge.net//	former license is unclear
pdfchain			https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502856
		http://naughtysvn.tigris.org/	seve from fedoraforum has a rpm for this
nicotine	filesharing	http://www.nicotine-plus.org/	http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/pub/srpm/nicotine+-1.2.10-1.fc11.src.rpm
shoooes	ruby framework	http://shoooes.net/
metasploit	framework for creating security tools and exploits	http://metasploit.com/framework/	3-clause BSD license
rasmol	molecular visualization software	http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
sk1	illustration program similar to corel draw or adobe illustrator	http://www.sk1project.org/	mandriva has it. Adam Williamson is interested in packaging it
gbuffy	mailbox biff program	http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/gbuffy/
JEP	Java Math Expression Parser	http://sourceforge.net/projects/jep/
argouml	UML program	http://argouml.tigris.org/
tinyuml	UML program	http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyuml
phplot	charts	http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplot/
linrad	ham radio program	http://www.nitehawk.com/sm5bsz/linuxdsp/linrad.htm
menumaker	menu generator for small window managers like fluxbox	http://sourceforge.net/projects/menumaker
eucalyptus	Amazon EC2 compatible cloud infrastructure	http://open.eucalyptus.com/
courier (imap and authlib)	imap server	http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/