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Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 10/2008 2008/03/02 -> 2008/03/08

Most important happenings

  • Week was mostly quiet. Looking to add more packages to get rt3 in place

Mailing list

Noteworthy discussions

  • Very little discussion on the mailling list this week.
  • More EPEL mirrors signed up. I need to find out how to report the exact number.
  • GOAL: Get rt3 in place.
  • GOAL: Find a way to request input from more EL customers on what they need.
  • GOAL: Need to research how to handle open-source items in RHX that do not meet EL due to patching of core items.

Meeting

Next Meeting

Wednesday, 20080130 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

Last weeks meeting

There was no meeting scheduled for the past week.

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors:175

We welcome 1 new contributors: buytenh

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 1142

Number of binary packages: 1841

There are 16 new Packages:

  • apg | Automated Password Generator for random password generation
  • certmaster | Remote certificate distribution framework
  • cpdup | Filesystem mirroring utility
  • flumotion | Flumotion - the Fluendo Streaming Server
  • perl-Crypt-DES | Perl DES encryption module
  • perl-Math-Symbolic | Symbolic calculations
  • perl-Module-Info | Information about Perl modules
  • perl-Module-Signature | CPAN signature management utilities and modules
  • perl-Net-SNMP | Object oriented interface to SNMP
  • perl-Test-Distribution | Perform tests on all modules of a distribution
  • perl-Test-File | Test file attributes
  • perl-Test-Prereq | Check if Makefile.PL has the right pre-requisites
  • perl-XML-Generator-DBI | Generate SAX events from SQL queries
  • perl-XML-SAX-Writer | SAX2 Writer
  • php-pecl-mailparse | PECL package for parsing and working with email messages
  • rkhunter | A host-based tool to scan for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 670 Number of binary packages: 1087 There are 6 new Packages:

  • apg | Automated Password Generator for random password generation
  • lighttpd | Lightning fast webserver with light system requirements
  • perl-Module-Signature | CPAN signature management utilities and modules
  • perl-Net-SNMP | Object oriented interface to SNMP
  • php-pecl-mailparse | PECL package for parsing and working with email messages
  • rkhunter | A host-based tool to scan for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits