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Weekly EPEL Summary
Week 26/2007
Most important happenings
- Jeff Sheltren is new Steering Committee member (he replaces Axel Thimm, who left some weeks ago)
- wiki docs will be ready and reviewed soon; @everyone: everything fine with the docs? anything missing?
- things that need do be done before EPEL announcement: fix broken deps, final repo layout, check if everything is okay
EPEL SIG Meeting
Attending
From the Steering Committee:
- Jeff_S (Jeff Sheltren)
- knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
- mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
- nirik (KevinFenzi)
- quiad (KarstenWade)
Missing from the Steering Committee:
- dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
- stahnma (MichaelStahnke)
Others that participated the meeting: notting, rdieter, f13, _blah_
Summary
- bodhi/testing repo/final repo layout – nirik/lmacken
- the plan is to move on using plague and the extras push scripts for the near future; koji plus bodhi later (hopefully soon; needs koji improvements that need to be written)
- we move the current repo down one level (hardlinking the files, to make mirrors happy) into a subdirectory "stable" to leave room on the server for other EPEL in the future (that might happen or not).
- we freeze the current repo and make the testing repo the default target for now and hand-move packages over to the stable repo when needed manually (information flow: via wiki) – e.g. new packages that were in testing for some days as well as important bugfixes (security, hard crashers, ...)
- finish the wiki docs and remove the warnings by end of may – quaid
- quaid and Jess_S are working on it; seems to be in the final stages
- unresolved deps / packages missing in owners.epel.list
- we should solve the broken deps soon (needed before announcement);
- nirik will poke maintainers (help from SIG members would likely be appreciated);
- mmcgrath will try to set up the broken deps checker script somewhere that spmas maintainers and the list in case of broken deps
- should we try to bug c4chris, so he runs his package status script for epel as well?
- vacant seat in the steering committee
- Jeff_S was elected by the Steering Committee members to fill Axel's seat
- Free discussion around EPEL
- _blah_> "i've requested a few packages from fedora maintainers that have not gotten back to me... what is the next step in getting those packages into epel?"; knurd mailed the Fedora list about this; see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg02614.html; revisit next week
- notting> "do we want a separate excludearch tracker for epel, or piggyback on the fedora one?" -> moved to the list, revisit next week
- f13> "has there been any progress on the RHX issue?" - quaid is supposed to do some looking into it IIRC
Full Log
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00000.html
Stats
General
Number of EPEL Contributors 101
We welcome 3 new contributors: mcepl_AT_redhat.com, qspencer_AT_ieee.org, skvidal_AT_linux.duke.edu
EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 405
Number of binary packages: 736
There are 12 new Packages:
- bzr | Friendly distributed version control system
- cvs2svn | CVS to Subversion Repository Converter
- glpk | GNU Linear Programming Kit
- itcl | Object oriented extensions to Tcl and Tk
- python-dateutil | Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module
- python-feedparser | Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python
- python-matplotlib | Python plotting library
- python-memcached | A Python memcached client library
- python-paramiko | A SSH2 protocol library for python
- pytz | World Timezone Definitions for Python
- re2c | Tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions
- yum-utils | Utilities based around the yum package manager
EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 252
Number of binary packages: 529
There are 4 new Packages:
- cvs2svn | CVS to Subversion Repository Converter
- itcl | Object oriented extensions to Tcl and Tk
- python-feedparser | Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python
- re2c | Tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions