Weekly EPEL Summary
Week 45/2007
Most important happenings
- nothing earthshaking
Mailing list
Noteworthy discussions
- EPEL builders are still RHEL 5.0; moving to RHEL 5.1 now on bears the risk that we break users of CentOS 5.0; no real outcome from the discussion yet; more discussion needed
- Lots of packages wanted -- https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-November/msg00020.html and https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-November/msg00024.html
- lots of deps of bugzilla are not yet in EPEL (lots of them: perl); lot's of packages that a 3rd party repo would need to compile xine-lib-extras-nonfree, mplayer and similar stuff are still missing as well; help needed;
Meeting
Next Meeting
20071107 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.
Please note that it's 18:00 UTC now again after the DST switch, so the effective meeting time should stay the same for everyone!
Last weeks meeting
Attendees:
Summary
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/NextTestingStableMove did the last move went well?
- nirik> | I think the last move went pretty well...
do we want to schedule them for specific times?
- mmcgrath> | nirik: I'd schedule a time then see if the list wants us to change it. It could be a while before the next move.
although, since its just you and me, perhaps the list would be better, or just wait till the next meeting to talk about it.
- nirik> | yeah, I would be happy with once a month or something, then the question is how long something needs to be in testing.
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/NextTestingStableMove when to do the move in EL4?
- nirik> | I can try and work on it I guess...
plan on perhaps next monday? let the f8 release suck up all the bw, etc.
- Clamav
- nirik is working on it
- why don't the broken dep reports go to the list?
- mmcgrath> | A) The script we use, for some reason, can take a long time to run and B) no one's done the work.
- mmcgrath posted to the list asking people to help so it gets posted to the list
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc -- how to get all the missing rpmfusion and bugzilla deps into EPEL and the wishlist empty as well?
- mmcgrath> | I say, Add them to the wish list and get to contacting each packager one by one until everything is in.
- nirik> | I think contacting maintainers is the best way... and if they don't answer branching, etc.
Stats
General
Number of EPEL Contributors: 140
We welcome 3 new contributors: drago01 rjones varekova
EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 738
Number of binary packages: 1435
There are 26 new Packages:
- bodhi | A modular framework that facilitates publishing software updates
- cdpr | Cisco Discovery Protocol Analyzer
- Django | A high-level Python Web framework
- func | Remote config, monitoring, and management api
- gdl | GNU Data Language
- gsl | The GNU Scientific Library for numerical analysis
- gsm | Shared libraries for GSM speech compressor
- libggz | Library for client-server games
- libofa | Open Fingerprint Architecture library
- libpri | An implementation of Primary Rate ISDN
- perl-Class-Singleton | Class::Singleton Perl module
- perl-Devel-Symdump | A Perl module for inspecting Perl's symbol table
- perl-HTML-Tree | HTML tree handling modules for Perl
- perl-IO-All | IO::All Perl module
- perl-LockFile-Simple | Simple file locking scheme
- perl-Text-Reform | Manual text wrapping and reformatting
- perl-Tk | Perl Graphical User Interface ToolKit
- postgis | Geographic Information Systems Extensions to PostgreSQL
- revisor | Fedora "Spin" Graphical User Interface
- ruby-ldap | Ruby LDAP libraries
- spandsp | A DSP library for telephony
- tre | POSIX compatible regexp library with approximate matching
- unshield | Install InstallShield applications on a Pocket PC
- wordpress | WordPress blogging software
- wv2 | A library which allows access to Microsoft® Word files
- zaptel | Tools and libraries for using/configuring/monitoring Zapata telephony interfaces
EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 442
Number of binary packages: 890
There are 8 new Packages:
- cdpr | Cisco Discovery Protocol Analyzer
- func | Remote config, monitoring, and management api
- perl-LockFile-Simple | Simple file locking scheme
- perl-Tk | Perl Graphical User Interface ToolKit
- python-configobj | Config file reading, writing, and validation
- ruby-ldap | Ruby LDAP libraries
- unshield | Install InstallShield applications on a Pocket PC
- wv2 | A library which allows access to Microsoft® Word files