EPEL/Reports/Week01

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 01/2008

Most important happenings

 * Faster builds in plague due to some optimizations done by Michael Schwendt (thx Michael!)


 * From the meeting summary: we'll do the EPEL5 moves from testing to stable around the 1st each months; the moves for epel4 are scheduled for the 15th each month

Noteworthy discussions

 * Clamav-Saga continues

Next Meeting
20080116 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

Last weeks meeting
Attendees:


 * _blah_


 * dgilmore


 * f13


 * Jeff_S


 * knurd


 * mmcgrath


 * nirik


 * quaid


 * stahnma


 * tibbs

Summary:


 * next testing -> stable move | knurd | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/NextTestingStableMove


 * we'll do the EPEL5 moves from testing to stable around the 1st each months; the moves for epel4 are scheduled for the 15th each month


 * knurd will write down the procedure next time, then nirik and others can help in the future


 * EL-updates to the buildsys | unassigned | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc


 * mmcgrath will look into how to get the updates from RHN daily into a repo which is used by mock to set up the EPEL buildroots; issue is tracked in this ticket ; see also:https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00038.html


 * RHEL MetaData | stahnma | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/RhelMetaData


 * stahnma> | sorry, not much to update ; I am working on it and didn't have much time over the holidays  am hoping for more very soon


 * KojiAndBodhiForEpel | mmcgrath | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/KojiAndBodhiForEpel


 * mmcgrath> | nothing over the holidays. We're hopeful but nothing concrete yet.


 * Free discussion around EPEL


 * tibbs mentioned there was a review for an EPEL-only package (tetex-lineno, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426929 );The only real issue with that review is what to do with the devel branch.


 * it was agreed on that a dead.package-file should in the devel branch (that's what was done) is the best approach


 * fudcon?


 * mmcgrath, nirik and quiad will be there


 * nirik> | well, the one thing I can think of would be to do a 'what is epel and why I should branch my packages for it' type session...

General
Number of EPEL Contributors: 165

We welcome 2 new contributors: michich rezso

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 963

Number of binary packages: 1772

There are 23 new Packages:


 * altermime | Alter MIME-encoded mailpacks


 * cernlib-g77 | General purpose CERN library


 * cernlib | General purpose CERN library


 * compface | Utilities for handling X-Faces


 * deltarpm | Create deltas between rpms


 * dosbox | x86/DOS emulator with sound and graphics


 * fluxbox | Window Manager based on Blackbox


 * glpi | Free IT asset management software


 * grads | Tool for easy acces, manipulation, and visualization of data


 * imlib2 | Image loading, saving, rendering, and manipulation library


 * libAfterImage | A generic image manipulation library


 * perl-Cache | The Cache interface


 * perl-File-MimeInfo | Determine file type and open application


 * perl-Inline-Files | Allows for multiple inline files in a single perl file


 * perl-Inline | Inline Perl module


 * perl-Net-DNS-Resolver-Programmable | Programmable DNS resolver class for offline emulation of DNS


 * python-xlrd | Library to extract data from Microsoft Excel (tm) spreadsheet files


 * rxvt | ouR XVT, a VT102 emulator for the X window system


 * rxvt-unicode | Rxvt-unicode is an unicode version of rxvt


 * tetex-tex4ht | Translates TeX and LaTeX into HTML or XML+MathML


 * wgrib | Manipulate, inventory and decode GRIB files


 * wmix | Dockapp mixer


 * xchm | A GUI front-end to CHMlib

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 577

Number of binary packages: 1096

There are 19 new Packages:


 * altermime | Alter MIME-encoded mailpacks


 * deltarpm | Create deltas between rpms


 * dosbox | An x86/DOS emulator with sound/graphics


 * glpi | Free IT asset management software


 * grads | Tool for easy acces, manipulation, and visualization of data


 * libAfterImage | A generic image manipulation library


 * perl-Cache | The Cache interface


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


 * perl-File-DesktopEntry | Object to handle .desktop files


 * perl-File-MimeInfo | Determine file type and open application


 * perl-Inline-Files | Allows for multiple inline files in a single perl file


 * perl-Inline | Inline Perl module


 * python-xlrd | Library to extract data from Microsoft Excel (tm) spreadsheet files


 * rxvt | Rxvt (ouR XVT) - a VT102 emulator for the X window system


 * tetex-elsevier | Elsevier LaTeX style files and documentation


 * tetex-lineno | Add line numbers on paragraphs in LaTeX


 * tetex-tex4ht | Translates TeX and LaTeX into HTML or XML+MathML


 * wgrib | Manipulate, inventory and decode GRIB files


 * wmix | Dockapp mixer