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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.

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

ACE - An OO network programming toolkit in C++
AleVT Teletext/Videotext browser for bttv tv cards
Alfresco Enterprise content management system
Apertium Toolbox to build shallow-transfer machine translation systems(contact #apertium channel in freenode network).
APF (Advanced Policy Firewall) - iptables(netfilter) based firewall system
Asterisk GUI GUI for managing Asterisk servers.
Axiom - general purpose system for symbolic calculations.
Blogbridge - Blog and rss reader (in Java)
bltk - Battery Life Tool Kit is a set of scripts and programs to monitor and log power consumption of Linux laptops/notebooks under different workloads (HuzaifaSidhpurwala is working on it)
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 .
CcHost - Creative Commons CMS that powers ccMixter
chesnut-dialer A feature-rich Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) dialer written in Python (Review Request )
CSpace - Secure, decentralized Peer-to-Peer instant messaging (Review request (dropped) )
clonezilla - opensource clone system
DansGuardian - Web content filter solution (not a free-enough software - [1] ??)
dimdim - open source web meeting product with features like Application, Desktop and Presentation sharing with A/V streaming and chat
Enigmail - OpenPGP/GnuPG extension for Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey
Entertainer Is a clutter based media center
Enthought framework - python framework for building scientific data visualization applications
Evergreen ILS - open source Integrated Library System (ILS)
FreeMind - Free mind-mapping software. JPackage SRPM available: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118&package_id=161830&release_id=574721 . jcalendar only required dependency we don't yet have.
gcompizthemer
gcvs - Graphical frontend to cvs
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.
gestikk - Mouse Gesture Recognition
g15tools - linux support to the g15 keyboard
GForge - GForge is a software for collaborative development for the software community (Review Request)
gitosis - Manage git repositories, provide access to them over SSH, with tight access control and not needing shell accounts. Currently only lives in developers git repository, thus no project website (yet?).
GimpShop - GimpShop is a fork of gimp for more compatibility with a commercial image editing program.
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.
glParchis -- Parcheesi
Gnu Linux Semantics Storage System - A storage solution that distances you from thinking about Where you store your data to What your data is.
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.
GNU Bayonne 1 and 2 - Telephony servers
GPRS Easy Connect - GUI for GPRS connecting and supports 704 phones and 269 providers.
Gnusound - audio editor.
gomponent
Gyache Enhanced - A full-featured Yahoo client for LINUX with voice chat and webcam support
guppy is an application to download videos from the Topfield TF5000PVRt.
http_replicator a smart caching proxy ideal for use with apt/yum
Hyperic HQ - an advanced system and application management platform
iFolder - requires simias (Review Request )
IMDbPy - do IMDB searches in Python, RPM package available in the downloads.
InstallJammer - InstallJammer is a multiplatform GUI installer designed to be completely cross-platform
ipplan - ipplan is a web-based application for managing IP address allocations
Irrlicht - lightning fast realtime 3D engine.
Jing - Jing is James Clarks' RELAX-NG XML schema validator. Example RPMs at authors site, works with gcj.
JOSM - JOSM is the "Java Open Street Map Editor"
kbfx - kbfx is an alternative to the classical K-Menu button and it's menu.
kBuild - Build Enviroment, needed for VirtualBox (Review Request )
KForge - For managing software and knowledge projects.
KLogic - KLogic is an application for building and simulating digital circuits easily
KMyFirewall - an IPTables based firewall configuration tool
l7-filter - L7-filter is a classifier for Linux's Netfilter that identifies packets based on application layer data.
KPrayertime - Islamic Prayer Times Applet
LaTeX2rtf - Translator program to translate a LaTeX document into the RTF format
libmspack - A library for Microsoft compression formats. If this library is accepted cabextract should link against it.
liferay - An open source Java based portal application.
linsmith
livebackup - LiveBackup is a framework to create live-cd's from installed Linux systems
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.
mb2md - Perl script for converting Unix mailboxes to Maildir format
mdp-toolkit - Modular toolkit for Data Processing (MDP) is a Python data processing framework.
Mercurial Eclipse - hg Eclipse plugin
mined Unicode text editor
mixmaster Anonymous remailer client and server
Mondo Rescue inclusion - Review Request
Misfitmodel3d - Misfit Model 3D is an OpenGL-based 3D model editor that works with triangle-based models (for SPEC/SRPM contact DanHorak)
mpd mpc is available, just mpd is missing. NOTE : mpd can't be included as-is in Fedora, because it needs libmad (the MP3 decoding library). The tarball even contains a copy of the libmad code.
MPlayer - MPlayer media player. --/legal/mplayer.html legal analysis
MythTV is a homebrew PVR project
MoBlock - A Peerguardian compatible connection blocker
Monsoon - A MonoTorrent based GTK# BitTorrent client
NagiosGrapher - Nagios Stats graphing.
NAT-PT - Network Address Translation, Protocol Translation IPv4/IPv6 - allows IPv6-only networks to connect to IPv4-only networks (based on RFC 2766)
nss_updatedb - Maintains a local cache of network directory user and group information.
ntop inclusion (Review Request )
noteedit - Free music score editor
nvram-wakeup - Reads and writes the wakeup time in the BIOS
onBoard - onscreen virtual keyboard
OnTV - A TV scheduler using XMLTV backends
OpenGroupware - Groupware software
openlp.org - Display words for songs, for use in churches
OpenProj - A desktop replacement of Microsoft Project
oprofileui - An excellent GTK GUI for the oprofile system profiler
PAIDA - PAIDA is pure Python scientific analysis package
Paver - Paver is a Python-based build/distribution/deployment scripting tool along the lines of Make or Rake.
paint-mono - An unofficial effort to port Paint.NET 3.0 to Linux using Mono
PHP openid library
PKCS #11 engine , PKCS #11 library OpenSC addons
pligg is a digg like CMS that uses PHP and MySQL.
pmtools Tools for examining kernel ACPI tables
PPTP-Config - PPTP - config program part of the pptp. Already has FC6 packages.
Prettify Automake - pretty automake output
pspp - program for statistical analysis of sampled data.
PyPE PyPE (Python Programmers' Editor) is an editor written in Python with the wxPython GUI toolkit.
PyTraffic - A free implementation of the Rush Hour puzzle.
python-egenix-mxdatetime - date and time handling routines for Python
QuickSoundFontManager - A gui for (a)sfxload / fluidsync to quick load several SF2 soundfonts in a EMU10k chip
Remoot - the pseudo-universal remote control wrapper. Wrapper around many apps.
Remuco - a Remote control server, for mobile phones, similar to Bemused and Salling Clicker
ROOT - Popular high-energy physics data analysis framework
ruby-taglib - a simple dl-based wrapper of Taglib's C library
Simdock - is a fast and customizable dockbar which fits well in Gnome but works on most desktop environments. Does not require Compiz nor 3D acceleration.
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)
speedcontrol - Small utility to limit DVD drive speed, since most DVD readers sound like lawn mowers at full speed which ruins movie playing experience
spindown - a daemon that can spindown idle disks and so saving energy and giving the disks a longer lifetime.
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
Stet - is a free software package for gathering comments about a text document via a webpage
Stylus Toolbox - A graphical frontend for managing the functions of Epson Ink Jet printers - including checking ink levels and print head cleaning/alignment.
Suhosin - An advanced protection system for PHP installations.
synfig - Film quality 2D vector animation now under GPL
system-config-control Central control panel for system-config-* tools.
Tasque - A simple task manager
[2] THDL input methods for Tibetan, Dzongkha, Lhadaki
Tkabber - Free and Open Source client for the Jabber instant messaging system writen in Tcl/Tk.
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.
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.
TuxShop point of sale and retail management application. (Does not appear to be open source - cannot see evidence of OSI-approved license)
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.
Vagalume - A Last.fm client for Gnome and Maemo. Review Request (failed)
Vigor - XMMS plugin that acts like Clippy. Fun!
VirtualBox - Free Virtual Machine suite from InnoTek ( Collaboration webpage )
Visual Python - a Python module that offers real-time 3D output, and is easily usable by novice programmers
WTP - Eclipse Webtools Project (JSP, HTML, JavaScript, XML, etc.)
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.
xjparse - an XML/XSD validator
XPad - Sticky note app - Review request (dropped)
zenoss - Open Source Monitoring Tool
speechd - Device-independent speech synthesis layer (perhaps useful for OLPC?)

Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) WishList

EPEL/WishList

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 the Perl SIG wishlist page.

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

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. Wheeler is working with several people to package some of these for Fedora, but the more the merrier!

Some of these tools include:

Prover9/Mace4
Coq
Why / Caduceus / Krakatoa
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
fuzz (the type checker for Z, not the random-input fuzzer; this may need a new name)

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

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

OLPC Wishlist

Please notify devel@lists.laptop.org if you decide to assist OLPC by packaging any of the following software in Fedora!

Hard

olpcrd - See our "building initramfsen" for hints instructions.

Medium

kernel
rainbow - (This is a really a "help port Rainbow to F-9" since it's already maintained in Fedora CVS).

squeak-vm
etoys
libabiword
libabiword-plugins
pyabiword

Easy

XS:

rssh
pam-sotp
postgres-8.3 - (XS is currently based on F-7. We could rebuild this for F-7 or start rebasing the XS onto F-9 or CentOS-5.2).
upgrade-server - for olpc-update.
backup client & server

XO:

bootfw
bootanim
olpc-library-common
olpc-library-core
olpc-licences
olpc-logos
olpccontents
olpc-update
olpc-netutils
pyevent - (See ausil's prior work)

Build:

Activities

OLPC Activities can now be packaged in Fedora for use with the Sugar desktop according to the packaging guidelines.

See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities for a list of interesting activities.

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/Guideline 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://www.nagiosexchange.org/NagiosGrapher.84.0.html NagiosGrapher]  - Nagios Stats graphing.
 * [http://lucastomicki.net/naptd.php NAT-PT]  - Network Address Translation, Protocol Translation IPv4/IPv6 - allows IPv6-only networks to connect to IPv4-only networks (based on RFC 2766)
-* [http://nethogs.sourceforge.net/ nethogs]  - NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process.
 * [http://www.padl.com/OSS/nss_updatedb.html nss_updatedb]  - Maintains a local cache of network directory user and group information.
 * [http://www.ntop.org ntop]  inclusion ([https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448397 Review Request] )

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