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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 | ||||
| remind | reminder - alternative to evolution appointments | http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind | small utility | 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/ | SUSE has it | ||||
| 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/ | |||||
| 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/ | |||||
| 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 | http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/pub/srpm/pdfchain-0.99-1.fc10.src.rpm | ||||||
| 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/ | |||||