EPEL/Reports/Week06

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 06/2008

Most important happenings

 * Reminder: there is vacant seat in the EPEL Steering Committee we'd like to fill in the next meeting -- self nominations welcome (on the EPEL list in public or in private by sending a mail to the current EPEL Steering Committee chairmen). We also will elect a new chairmen for the EPEL Steering Committee in the next EPEL SIG meeting.

Noteworthy discussions

 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00023.html -- EPEL Meeting: Call for Topics


 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00050.html -- rough perl module status


 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00051.html -- epel task force?


 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00048.html -- rt3 for EPEL status update

Last weeks meeting
None scheduled.

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

The topics scheduled for the next meeting as well as a rough status for all in-progress steering committee tasks can always be found in the wiki at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Schedule

General
Number of EPEL Contributors: 175

We welcome 3 new contributors: corsepiu swarren walters

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 1084

Number of binary packages: 1999

There are 25 new Packages:


 * ctorrent | BitTorrent Client written in C


 * d4x | Downloader for X that supports resuming and many other features


 * fxload | A helper program to download firmware into FX and FX2 EZ-USB devices


 * glusterfs | Cluster File System


 * gridengine | Grid Engine - Distributed Computing Management software


 * libxml++ | C++ wrapper for the libxml2 XML parser library


 * perl-Calendar-Simple | Perl extension to create simple calendars


 * perl-capitalization | No capitalization on method names


 * perl-ccom | Perl module for context-sensitive phonetic string replacement


 * perl-Class-MethodMaker | Perl module for creating generic object-oriented methods


 * perl-Class-ReturnValue | Class::ReturnValue Perl module


 * perl-DBIx-DBSchema | Database-independent schema objects


 * perl-DBIx-SearchBuilder | Encapsulate SQL queries and rows in simple perl objects


 * perl-Devel-StackTrace | Perl module implementing stack trace and stack trace frame objects


 * perl-ExtUtils-AutoInstall | Automatic install of dependencies via CPAN


 * perl-GnuPG-Interface | Perl interface to GnuPG


 * perl-Locale-Maketext-Lexicon | Extract translatable strings from source


 * perl-Net-eBay | Perl Interface to XML based eBay API


 * perl-Regexp-Common | Regexp::Common Perl module


 * perl-Sort-Versions | Perl module for sorting of revision-like numbers


 * perl-Text-Wrapper | Simple word wrapping perl module


 * perl-Tree-Simple | Tree::Simple Perl module


 * perl-Want | Perl module implementing a generalisation of wantarray


 * perl-XML-Filter-BufferText | Filter to put all characters in one event


 * sshmenu | Application to organize SSH connection information in a menu

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 6549

Number of binary packages: 1191

There are 5 new Packages:


 * glusterfs | Cluster File System


 * perl-ccom | Perl module for context-sensitive phonetic string replacement


 * perl-Class-MethodMaker | Perl module for creating generic object-oriented methods


 * perl-XML-Filter-BufferText | Filter to put all characters in one event


 * proftpd | Flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP server