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Monthly EPEL Summary
Week 09/2008 2008-03-15 -> 2008-04-28
Most important happenings
- Missed a lot of reports. Things got done.. just missed reports
- RHEL-5.2 beta problems will change firefox-devel and other things.
- We may have Red Hat Summit Talks (or we might not... news at 11)
Mailing list
Noteworthy discussions
- Jeff Spaleta added himself to EPEL
- EL-5 updates were pushed at end of March.
- EL-4 updates were pushed at middle of April
- EL-5 updates were pushed at end of April.
- Wishlist was updated and lots of items pushed.
Meeting
Next Meeting
Wednesday, 20080507 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
The statistics for some items are broken because of changes in yum in RHEL-5 beta.
General
Number of EPEL Contributors:185
We welcome 11 new contributors: fschwarz konradm ravenoak smooge bradbell green joshkayse sandeen huzaifas kairo ianweller
EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 387?
Number of binary packages: 843?
There are 13 new Packages:
- amarok | Media player
- atop | An advanced interactive monitor to view the load on system and process level
- bluefish | GTK2 web development application for experienced users
- cppad | no base package is installed, see cppad-devel and cppad-doc
- flam3 | Programs to generate and render cosmic recursive fractal flames
- hydrogen | Advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux
- imapsync | Tool to migrate email between IMAP servers
- inadyn | Dynamic DNS Client
- java-1.6.0-openjdk | OpenJDK Runtime Environment
- koules | Action game with multiplayer, network and sound support
- kstart | Daemon version of kinit for Kerberos v5
- libffi | A portable foreign function interface library
- libsamplerate | Sample rate conversion library for audio data
- loudmouth | Loudmouth is a Jabber programming library written in C
- lsvpd | VPD/hardware inventory utilities for Linux
- maradns | Authoritative and recursive DNS server made with security in mind
- mod_suphp | An apache2 module for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners
- monitor-edid | Tool for probing and parsing monitor EDID
- nettle | A low-level cryptographic library
- nsca | Nagios Service Check Acceptor
- padevchooser | Control applet for PulseAudio
- perl-Error | Error Perl module
- perl-HTML-Parser | Perl module for parsing HTML
- perl-HTML-Template | Perl module to use HTML Templates
- perl-IO-Capture | Abstract Base Class to build modules to capture output
- perl-Sub-Name | Name -- or rename -- a sub
- perl-WWW-Search | Virtual base class for WWW searches
- perl-XML-Entities | Decode strings with XML entities
- publican | Common files and scripts for publishing Documentation
- pulseaudio | Improved Linux sound server
- pyephem | The astronomy library for Python
- python-cjson | Fast JSON encoder/decoder for Python
- python-decorator | Module to simplify usage of decorators
- python-ply | Python Lex-Yacc
- rt3 | Request tracker 3
- tzdata-java | Time zone data for Java language
- viewmtn | Web interface for Monotone version control system
- xautolock | Launches a program when your X session has been idle
EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 414?
Number of binary packages: 320?
There are 26 new Packages:
- atop | An advanced interactive monitor to view the load on system and process level
- bluefish | GTK2 web development application for experienced users
- flam3 | Programs to generate and render cosmic recursive fractal flames
- imlib2 | Image loading, saving, rendering, and manipulation library
- inadyn | Dynamic DNS Client
- mod_suphp | An apache2 module for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners
- monitor-edid | Tool for probing and parsing monitor EDID
- nettle | A low-level cryptographic library
- nsca | Nagios Service Check Acceptor
- perl-HTML-Parser | Perl module for parsing HTML
- perl-HTML-Template | Perl module to use HTML Templates
- perl-HTML-Tree | HTML tree handling modules for Perl
- perl-IPC-SharedCache | Perl module to manage a cache in SysV IPC shared memory
- perl-Text-Aspell | Perl interface to the GNU Aspell library
- perl-XML-Entities | Decode strings with XML entities
- perl-XML-TreeBuilder | Parser that builds a tree of XML::Element objects
- postgis | Geographic Information Systems Extensions to PostgreSQL
- pptp | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Client
- publican | Common files and scripts for publishing Documentation
- publican-fedora | Publican documentation template files for fedora
- pyke | Knowledge-based inference engine
- python-ply | Python Lex-Yacc
- roundcubemail | Round Cube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client
- synergy | Mouse and keyboard sharing utility
- taglib | Audio Meta-Data Library
- wesnoth | Turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme