Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week06

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 06/2008

Most important happenings

• Reminder: there is vacant seat in the EPEL Steering Committee we'd like to fill in the next meeting -- self nominations welcome (on the EPEL list in public or in private by sending a mail to the current EPEL Steering Committee chairmen). We also will elect a new chairmen for the EPEL Steering Committee in the next EPEL SIG meeting.

Mailing list

Noteworthy discussions

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00023.html -- EPEL Meeting: Call for Topics

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00050.html -- rough perl module status

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00051.html -- epel task force?

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00048.html -- rt3 for EPEL status update

Meeting

Last weeks meeting

None scheduled.

Next Meeting

Wednesday, 20080213 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

The topics scheduled for the next meeting as well as a rough status for all in-progress steering committee tasks can always be found in the wiki at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Schedule

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors: 175

We welcome 3 new contributors: corsepiu swarren walters

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 1084

Number of binary packages: 1999

There are 25 new Packages:

• ctorrent | BitTorrent Client written in C

• d4x | Downloader for X that supports resuming and many other features

• fxload | A helper program to download firmware into FX and FX2 EZ-USB devices

• glusterfs | Cluster File System

• gridengine | Grid Engine - Distributed Computing Management software

• libxml++ | C++ wrapper for the libxml2 XML parser library

• perl-Calendar-Simple | Perl extension to create simple calendars

• perl-capitalization | No capitalization on method names

• perl-ccom | Perl module for context-sensitive phonetic string replacement

• perl-Class-MethodMaker | Perl module for creating generic object-oriented methods

• perl-Class-ReturnValue | Class::ReturnValue Perl module

• perl-DBIx-DBSchema | Database-independent schema objects

• perl-DBIx-SearchBuilder | Encapsulate SQL queries and rows in simple perl objects

• perl-Devel-StackTrace | Perl module implementing stack trace and stack trace frame objects

• perl-ExtUtils-AutoInstall | Automatic install of dependencies via CPAN

• perl-GnuPG-Interface | Perl interface to GnuPG

• perl-Locale-Maketext-Lexicon | Extract translatable strings from source

• perl-Net-eBay | Perl Interface to XML based eBay API

• perl-Regexp-Common | Regexp::Common Perl module

• perl-Sort-Versions | Perl module for sorting of revision-like numbers

• perl-Text-Wrapper | Simple word wrapping perl module

• perl-Tree-Simple | Tree::Simple Perl module

• perl-Want | Perl module implementing a generalisation of wantarray

• perl-XML-Filter-BufferText | Filter to put all characters() in one event

• sshmenu | Application to organize SSH connection information in a menu

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 6549

Number of binary packages: 1191

There are 5 new Packages:

• glusterfs | Cluster File System

• perl-ccom | Perl module for context-sensitive phonetic string replacement

• perl-Class-MethodMaker | Perl module for creating generic object-oriented methods

• perl-XML-Filter-BufferText | Filter to put all characters() in one event

• proftpd | Flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP server

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