Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week20

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 20/2007

Most important happenings

• mether (RahulSundaram) did some proof reading and cleanups in various EPEL documents in the wiki; thx for your help mether! quaid (KarstenWade) is also working on cleaning up the wiki.

• "start signal" for Fedora contributors was send; see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-May/msg00323.html ; EPEL got quite some new contributors and packages due to it

• some discussions about the proper update strategy for packages

EPEL SIG Meeting

Attending

From the Steering Committee:

• dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
• knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
• mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
• nirik (KevinFenzi)
• quiad (KarstenWade)

Stahnma (MichaelStahnke) just missed the meeting.

Others that participated the meeting: Jeff_S, lmacken, smooge

Summary

• 00:02 -- repotags/interaction with 3rd party repos -- owner: all

• we wait for more discussion on the list (in particular for Fernando Lopez-Lezcano before we decide how to move on)

• knurd also want to discuss cooperation with CentOS/z00dax a bit, which might have impact to this, too

• 00:04 -- vacant seat in the steering committee

• knurd mailed those five people thimm proposed; four answered; they gave a "no" or a "only if you don't find somebody else"

kind of answers; we wait another week and evaluate; maybe z00dax could join the Steering Committee (even without being a contributor for EPEL, as he can't sign the CLA)

• 00:06 -- finish the wiki docs and remove the warnings

• mether and quaid did some cleanups; quaid will do some more over the next few days; the plan is to remove the those "not official yet" warning by next weeks meeting, but the EPEL repo itself stays unannounced

• some discussion about bodhi with lmacken under this topic; see full log for details

• 00:14 -- Free discussion around EPEL

• 00:15 nirik asked for comments regarding Xfce in EPEL, as Xfce will soon get into CentOS Extras, too; (see full log for details); knurd mentions that we should have it in EPEL, even if CentOS Extras has it, but we should try to find a way of cooperation so bugfixes find their way into CentOS Extras, EPEL and Fedora

• 00:20 nirik> "oh, how about mock configs?" dgilmore will make sure they work

• 00:25 smooge> "Will we be answering who the EPEL customers are thought to be to distinguish it from other customer bases?"; we continue on the list, but we maybe should write something up and put it in the wiki

• 00:26 some discussions about RHEL subscriptions for testing; quiad "I haven't gotten too far with that ... still looking for the right person"; lots of people say that CentOS should be god enough for testing normally; but having some testboxes with RHEL around might be helpful

Full meeting log

See https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-May/msg00088.html

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors 74

We welcome 13 new contributors: dcm_AT_acm.org, dev_AT_nigelj.com, eric.tanguy_AT_univ-nantes.fr, fedora_AT_theholbrooks.org, frank-buettner_AT_gmx.net, gajownik_AT_gmail.com, gilboad_AT_gmail.com, jeff.gilchrist_AT_gmail.com, jwb_AT_redhat.com, lxtnow_AT_gmail.com, mfleming+rpm_AT_enlartenment.com, ruben_AT_rubenkerkhof.com, trond.danielsen_AT_gmail.com

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 274

Number of binary packages: 437

There are 49 new Packages:

• autodir | Creates user directories on demand

• cgdb | CGDB is a curses-based interface to the GNU Debugger (GDB)

• DMitry | Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool

• drgeo-doc | Html documentation for drgeo

• drgeo | Interactive educational geometry software

• freehdl | GPLed free VHDL

• gperiodic | Program for browsing the periodic table

• ike-scan | IKE protocol tool to discover, fingerprint and test IPsec VPN servers

• incron | Inotify cron system

• ircd-hybrid | Internet Relay Chat Server

• libiptcdata | IPTC tag library

• libupnp | Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK

• nbtscan | Tool to gather NetBIOS info from Windows networks

• nrpe | Host/service/network monitoring agent for Nagios

• ocaml | Objective Caml compiler and programming environment

• pdns | A modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver

• pdns-recursor | Modern, advanced and high performance recursing/non authoritative nameserver

• perl-Apache-DBI | Persistent database connections with Apache/mod_perl

• perl-Boulder | An API for hierarchical tag/value structures

• perl-DBD-SQLite | Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver

• perl-HTML-Table | Create HTML tables using simple interface

• perl-IO-Multiplex | IO-Multiplex module for perl

• perl-libwhisker2 | Perl module geared specificly for HTTP testing

• perl-Net-IP-CMatch | Efficiently match IP addresses against IP ranges with C

• perl-Net-Patricia | Patricia Trie perl module for fast IP address lookups

• perl-String-Approx | Perl extension for approximate matching (fuzzy matching)

• perl-XML-DOM | DOM extension to XML::Parser

• perl-XML-RegExp | Regular expressions for XML tokens

• php-channel-phpunit | Adds phpunit channel to PEAR

• php-pear-DB | PEAR: Database Abstraction Layer

• php-pear-Log | Abstracted logging facility for PHP

• php-pecl-radius | Radius client library

• php-pecl-xdebug | PECL package for debugging PHP scripts

• Pound | Reverse proxy and load balancer

• python-cheetah | Template engine and code-generator

• python-docutils | A system for processing plaintext documentation

• python-krbV | Python extension module for Kerberos 5

• python-numarray | Python array manipulation and computational library

• python-protocols | Open Protocols and Component Adaptation for Python

• python-sqlite2 | DB-API 2.0 interface for SQLite 3.x

• qucs | Circuit simulator

• ruby-mysql | A Ruby interface to MySQL

• scponly | Restricted shell for ssh based file services

• specto | An desktop application that will watch configurable events

• ushare | UPnP (TM) A/V Media Server

• windowlab | Small and Simple Amiga-like Window Manager

• yum-arch | Extract headers from rpm in a old yum repository

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 186

Number of binary packages: 348

There are 28 new Packages:

• bugzilla | Bug tracking system

• DMitry | Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool

• drgeo-doc | Html documentation for drgeo

• freehdl | GPLed free VHDL

• gperiodic | Program for browsing the periodic table

• ike-scan | IKE protocol tool to discover, fingerprint and test IPsec VPN servers

• ircd-hybrid | Internet Relay Chat Server

• libupnp | Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK

• nbtscan | Tool to gather NetBIOS info from Windows networks

• ocaml | Objective Caml compiler and programming environment

• pdns-recursor | Modern, advanced and high performance recursing/non authoritative nameserver

• perl-Apache-DBI | Persistent database connections with Apache/mod_perl

• perl-Boulder | An API for hierarchical tag/value structures

• perl-HTML-Table | Create HTML tables using simple interface

• perl-libwhisker2 | Perl module geared specificly for HTTP testing

• perl-Net-IP-CMatch | Efficiently match IP addresses against IP ranges with C

• perl-Net-Patricia | Patricia Trie perl module for fast IP address lookups

• perl-String-Approx | Perl extension for approximate matching (fuzzy matching)

• perl-XML-DOM | DOM extension to XML::Parser

• perl-XML-RegExp | Regular expressions for XML tokens

• Pound | Reverse proxy and load balancer

• python-krbV | Python extension module for Kerberos 5

• python-numarray | Python array manipulation and computational library

• qucs | Circuit simulator

• ruby-mysql | A Ruby interface to MySQL

• scponly | Restricted shell for ssh based file services

• specto | An desktop application that will watch configurable events

• windowlab | Small and Simple Amiga-like Window Manager

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