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Weekly EPEL Summary
Week 25/2007
Most important happenings
We'll likely fill the Vacant Steering Committee Seat over the next week; so if you are interested let knurd know!
EPEL SIG Meeting
Attending
From the Steering Committee:
- mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
- nirik (KevinFenzi)
- dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
- stahnma (MichaelStahnke)
- quiad (KarstenWade) (had fun at the dentist)
Missing from the Steering Committee:
- knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis) (partly)
Others that participated the meeting: rdieter, _blah_,
Summary
- Finish the wiki -- quaid
- quaid
> I think all of you have done a good job of making the content ... full and rich
- so it's a few hours of edits left
- I'll be able to do an hour today, for sure, so again ... should be done by the end of the week
- )
- Repo-layout
- looks like Fedora will keep lmacken and mbonnet busy for a while; so we should might towards a solution to annouce epel, but use plague and the old extras push-scripts for the near future; or go without testing for nowdiscuss further on the list
- some discussion if we want stable and rolling releases
- Make sure the repo is in good shape
- we maybe should run the dependency checker script regularly; mmcgrath will look into this
- Announce EPEL officially
- mmcgrath> so we're blocking on the wiki as well as the build stuff.
So thats the end of the big picture tasks really.
- Vacant seat in the steering committee
- will get discussed on the list
- Free Discussion:
- some discussion around RHX and if EPEL can package stuff that's part of it; see full log for details
Full Log
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-June/msg00056.html
Stats
General
Number of EPEL Contributors 98
We welcome 8 new contributors: alex_AT_dalloz.de, i_AT_stingr.net, jjohnstn_AT_redhat.com, john_AT_ncphotography.com, jonathansteffan_AT_gmail.com, lists_AT_forevermore.net, otaylor_AT_redhat.com, overholt_AT_redhat.com, robert_AT_marcanoonline.com, than_AT_redhat.com
EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 393
Number of binary packages: 641
There are 34 new Packages:
- aqbanking | A library for online banking functions and financial data import/export
- asciidoc | Text based document generation
- babel | Tools for internationalizing Python applications
- bash-completion | Programmable completion for Bash
- checkstyle | Java source code checker
- ctapi-cyberjack | CT-API 1.1 driver for REINER SCT cyberjack USB chipcard reader
- cvsplot | Collect statistics from CVS controlled files
- eclipse-cdt | Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) plugin
- eclipse-checkstyle | Checkstyle plugin for Eclipse
- fortune-mod | A program which will display a fortune
- ganymed-ssh2 | SSH-2 protocol implementation in pure Java
- git | Git core and tools
- gnucash-docs | Help files and documentation for the GnuCash personal finanace manager
- gnucash | GnuCash is an application to keep track of your finances
- gwenhywfar | A multi-platform helper library for other libraries
- g-wrap | A tool for creating Scheme interfaces to C libraries
- jakarta-commons-cli | Command Line Interface Library for Java
- kmymoney2 | Personal finance
- libofx | A library for supporting Open Financial Exchange (OFX)
- mercurial | A fast, lightweight distributed source control management system
- mksh | MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell
- mod_security | Security module for the Apache HTTP Server
- muParser | A fast math parser library
- perl-Finance-Quote | A Perl module that retrieves stock and mutual fund quotes
- perl-HTML-TableExtract | A Perl module for extracting content in HTML tables
- pfqueue | Queue manager for the Postfix/Exim Mail Transport Agents
- postgresql-table_log | Log data changes in a PostgreSQL table
- reciteword | Recite Word Easily
- recode | Conversion between character sets and surfaces
- rsnapshot | Local and remote filesystem snapshot utility
- rzip | A large-file compression program
- sec | SEC (simple event correlator)
- slib | Platform independent library for scheme
- svnkit | Pure Java Subversion client library
- tcptraceroute | A traceroute implementation using TCP packets
EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 248
Number of binary packages: 460
There are 18 new Packages:
- aqbanking | A library for online banking functions and financial data import/export
- bash-completion | Programmable completion for Bash
- ctapi-cyberjack | CT-API 1.1 driver for REINER SCT cyberjack USB chipcard reader
- cvsplot | Collect statistics from CVS controlled files
- fortune-mod | A program which will display a fortune
- git | Git core and tools
- gnucash-docs | Help files and documentation for the GnuCash personal finanace manager
- gnucash | GnuCash is an application to keep track of your finances
- gwenhywfar | A multi-platform helper library for other libraries
- g-wrap | A tool for creating Scheme interfaces to C libraries
- libofx | A library for supporting Open Financial Exchange (OFX)
- mercurial | A fast, lightweight distributed source control management system
- mksh | MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell
- muParser | A fast math parser library
- perl-Finance-Quote | A Perl module that retrieves stock and mutual fund quotes
- perl-HTML-TableExtract | A Perl module for extracting content in HTML tables
- pfqueue | Queue manager for the Postfix/Exim Mail Transport Agents
- recode | Conversion between character sets and surfaces
- rzip | A large-file compression program