Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week39

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 39/2007

Most important happenings

• Nothing major

EPEL SIG Meeting

Attending

• dgilmore
• f13
• knurd
• marek
• mmcgrath
• nirik
• quaid
• warren

Summary

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/PackageMaintainer/GenericJobDescription and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/CommunicationPlan -- quaid

• both were approved -- nobody complained on the list last time it was discussed (that was some weeks ago) and we can easily updated when people want to see something changed

• task--quaid: put it properly in the wiki (link on the frontpage, everywhere else where needed? and similar stuff)

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Rhel51 -- unassigned

• new ask page created by knurd to track preparations we likely should do for 5.1

• when to remove yum-utils and other packages that are not part of RHEL?

• leave the package in the repo until at least CentOS catches up, then drop them?

• nirik> | I'm happy to work on bugging people about broken deps and trying to work on the repo for the next testing/final move.

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

• skipped

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/KojiAndBodhiForEpel -- unassigned

• moving to bodhi requires that we switch to koji, which first needs the ability to hide RHEL binaries from the world

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc

• yum-cron

• things are in the works to get this issue fixed; see https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-September/msg00087.html

• do more on the list and less in the meetings; "Power to the people with no delay." aka "make Steering Committee nearly unimportant" and "new schedule page"

• some discussions around this to improve workflow and do stuff like "if nobody complains on the list (or in the IRC meetings) its simply considered accepted"

• knurd> | it's just a general idea IMHO; we just need to find way to realize that idea; the new stuff in the wiki is a first step for I hope we do more, but I don't know yet exactly what to do; suggestions welcomed

• Free discussion around EPEL

• nirik> | I have almost caught up on security checking for epel...

• nirik> | there are some packages that were never built, but have branches. Might be good if we could gather a list of those and ping maintainers to build or work on deps to build

• nirik> | finally, did we ever determine about pushing from testing->stable more often? Or should I bring that up on the list again?

• we prepare one; will decide if we just do it or if we do it together with 5.1

• dep scripts running for testing these days? mmcgrath> | knurd: I don't think they are, I'll do that now.

• task--mmcgrath -- dep scripts running for testing

Full Log

https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-September/msg00110.html

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors 1

We welcome 1 new contributors: till

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 670

Number of binary packages: 1299

There are 9 new Packages:

• amavisd-new | Email filter with virus scanner and spamassassin support

• fedora-package-config-smart | Fedora EPEL configuration files for the Smart package manager

• jack-audio-connection-kit | The Jack Audio Connection Kit

• libid3tag | ID3 tag manipulation library

• mathml-fonts | Mathematical symbol fonts

• optipng | A PNG optimizer and converter

• python-fedora | Python modules for talking to Fedora Infrastructure Services

• smart | Next generation package handling tool

• wavpack | A completely open audiocodec

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 421

Number of binary packages: 859

There are 1 new Packages:

• wavpack | A completely open audiocodec

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