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Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 05/2008

Most important happenings

  • EPEL5 testing -> stable move happened (as always around the 1st each month). We have now 1011 different software packages (counting SRPMs) in the EPEL5 proper repositories for RHEL5/CentOS5.
  • Stephen J Smoogen ( smooge ) filled the vacant seat in the EPEL Steering Committee

Mailing list

Noteworthy discussions

Meeting

Last weeks meeting

Full log:

Attendees:

Summary:

  • the old script isn't running anymore
  • knurd prepared it prepared and improved the docs how to do the move
  • no news from Jess_S or mmcgrath
  • smooge (who self nominated on the list) was approved as steering committee member
  • knurd want's to leave:
  • thus we have a vacant seat again; self-nominations welcome; quaid: "I wonder if any of the RHTers who deal with RHX would be interested"
  • smooge and nirik are nominated as new chairmen; more nominations welcome; new chair will be elected in the next meeting
  • new meeting time can be discussed
  • Free discussion around EPEL
  • smooge> | ok how are we doing for packages etc? how many are still in waiting to be branched etc? and wish list?
  • no exact numbers, but there are likely about 2500 - 3000 packages (counting SRPMS) in Fedora which are not in EPEL
  • smooge> | I think once we are pushing things regularly and getting more packages.. it would be a good idea to start recruuitiong more mirrors
  • more mirrors can't hurt; asking on that closed mirror list might be the best start to get more mirrors

Next Meeting

Wednesday, 20080213 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors: 172

We welcome 4 new contributors: arnd sxw timn xavierb

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 1056

Number of binary packages: 1960

There are 35 new Packages:

  • coriander | Control a 1394 digital camera interactively
  • crack | Password cracker
  • dtc | Device Tree Compiler
  • innotop | A MySQL and InnoDB monitor program
  • libdc1394 | 1394-based digital camera control library
  • livecd-tools | Tools for building live CD's
  • mash | Koji buildsystem to yum repository converter
  • mod_line_edit | A general-puropse filter for text documents
  • perl-Algorithm-CheckDigits | Perl extension to generate and test check digits
  • perl-Class-Inner | A perlish implementation of Java like inner classes
  • perl-Crypt-CBC | Encrypt Data with Cipher Block Chaining Mode
  • perl-HTML-PrettyPrinter | Generate nice HTML files from HTML syntax trees
  • perl-HTML-Scrubber | Library for scrubbing/sanitizing html
  • perl-IPC-ShareLite | Light-weight interface to shared memory
  • perl-Linux-Pid | Get the native PID and the PPID on Linux
  • perl-Math-BaseCnv | Fast functions to CoNVert between number Bases
  • perl-NetAddr-IP | Manages IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and subnets
  • perl-PDL | The Perl Data Language
  • perl-TermReadKey | A perl module for simple terminal control
  • perl-Test-Unit | The PerlUnit testing framework
  • perl-Text-Format | Various subroutines to format text
  • perl-User | API for locating user information regardless of OS
  • perl-XML-Handler-YAWriter | Yet another Perl SAX XML Writer
  • perl-XML-Merge | Flexibly merge XML documents
  • perl-XML-Tidy | Tidy indenting of XML documents
  • perl-XML-Xerces | Perl API to Xerces XML parser
  • python-elixir | A declarative mapper for SQLAlchemy
  • python-libgmail-docs | Documents and examples for python-libgmail
  • python-libgmail | Library to provide access to Gmail via Python
  • remctl | Client/server for Kerberos-authenticated command execution
  • rtpproxy | A symmetric RTP proxy
  • sagator | SAGATOR - antivir/antispam gateway for smtp server
  • silkscreen-fonts | Silkscreen four member type family
  • up-imapproxy | University of Pittsburgh IMAP Proxy
  • xorg-x11-drv-openchrome | Xorg X11 openchrome video driver

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 644

Number of binary packages: 1180

There are 25 new Packages:

  • innotop | A MySQL and InnoDB monitor program
  • perl-Algorithm-CheckDigits | Perl extension to generate and test check digits
  • perl-Authen-Krb5 | Krb5 Perl module
  • perl-Class-Inner | A perlish implementation of Java like inner classes
  • perl-Crypt-CBC | Encrypt Data with Cipher Block Chaining Mode
  • perl-DateTime-Precise | Perform common time and date operations with additional GPS operations
  • perl-HTML-Scrubber | Library for scrubbing/sanitizing html
  • perl-IPC-ShareLite | Light-weight interface to shared memory
  • perl-Linux-Pid | Get the native PID and the PPID on Linux
  • perl-Math-BaseCnv | Fast functions to CoNVert between number Bases
  • perl-NetAddr-IP | Manages IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and subnets
  • perl-TermReadKey | A perl module for simple terminal control
  • perl-Test-Unit | The PerlUnit testing framework
  • perl-Text-Format | Various subroutines to format text
  • perl-User | API for locating user information regardless of OS
  • perl-XML-Handler-YAWriter | Yet another Perl SAX XML Writer
  • perl-XML-Merge | Flexibly merge XML documents
  • perl-XML-Tidy | Tidy indenting of XML documents
  • perl-XML-Xerces | Perl API to Xerces XML parser
  • python-libgmail | Library to provide access to Gmail via Python
  • remctl | Client/server for Kerberos-authenticated command execution
  • rtpproxy | A symmetric RTP proxy
  • sagator | SAGATOR - antivir/antispam gateway for smtp server
  • silkscreen-fonts | Silkscreen four member type family
  • up-imapproxy | University of Pittsburgh IMAP Proxy
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