EPEL/Reports/Week35

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 35/2007

Most important happenings

 * we will do alternate meeting times now; 23:00 one week, 17:00 UTC the other; next meeting at 20070905 at 23:00 UTC


 * FESCo extended the mandate for the EPEL Steering Committee


 * the plan is to push new packages (not updates ones) more often to stable in the future; likely every four weeks for now -- no exact timeframe can be given yet, as we need to see how complicate it is (the process needs to be prepared manually by someone in a local test-repo first, to check if all deps are still satisfied before packages can actually be moved)

Attending
From the Steering Committee:


 * dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
 * knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
 * mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
 * Jeff_S (Jeff Sheltren)
 * nirik (KevinFenzi)
 * stahnma (MichaelStahnke)

Missing from the Steering Committee:


 * quaid (KarstenWade)

Summary

 * easier pushing from testing to stable


 * nirik can push for EPEL as well (in addition to dgilmore, knurd and mmcgrath)


 * mschwendt did some improvements to the scripts (many thx mschwendt for your work!); they should make it easy to move something from testing to stable ; the final patch to the scripts-in-production was not applied yet ; knurd talked to dgilmore about it (he knows the scripts way better than I do) and wants to take a look (on his todo list after fixing plague ); if he doesn't find the time knurd will take the risk over the next few days as do it himself


 * we need to be careful that a update doesn't depend on something else in testing.


 * new meeting schedule/scheme


 * alternate meetings are the new black; find the details in https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-September/msg00005.html and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Meetings


 * MetaData for all Packages available to contributors. -- stahnma


 * I've been trying to get a better definition of the problem ; I understand the issue, but use-cases etc would be nice ; we need a clear stance on EPEL not stepping on RHN provided material and a way to hopefully enforce it


 * might be a good start to at least have a package list of RHEL4 and RHEL5 online somewhere


 * mandate for the Steering Committee


 * nirik will ask FESCo (which happened in between)


 * push quicker to stable


 * see section "most important happenings"


 * Free discussion around EPEL


 * Quotes: "I want a pony" and "the weather sucks "


 * stahnma> "I am trying to get some more #rhel and #rhn people involved here in EPEL "; are there any other channels/mailing lists where we should ask interested people to join us in the meetings?


 * stahnma> "can anyone write for RH magazine? " stahnma will evaluate and would happily write it; but maybe mether or someone else is preparing one already?


 * nirik is working on clamav; comments on his post appreciated; "and solving the problems with the packaging and compatibility with dag/rpmforge would be good"; on the other hand it's good if stuff is similar in Fedora and EPEL

Full Log
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-September/msg00006.html

General
Number of EPEL Contributors: unknown -- looks like we'll have it next again next week!

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 628

Number of binary packages: 1196

There are 29 new Packages:


 * amtterm | Serial-over-lan (sol) client for Intel AMT
 * dfu-programmer | A Device Firmware Update based USB programmer for Atmel chips
 * dstat | Versatile resource statistics tool
 * erlang | General-purpose programming language and runtime environment
 * iftop | Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface
 * jhead | Tool for displaying EXIF data embedded in JPEG images
 * perl-CGI-Simple | Simple totally OO CGI interface that is CGI.pm compliant
 * perl-CGI-Untaint | Process CGI input parameters
 * perl-Class-Trigger | Mixin to add / call inheritable triggers
 * perl-Class-Whitehole | Base class to treat unhandled method calls as errors
 * perl-Date-Simple | Simple date object for perl
 * perl-Exporter-Lite | Lightweight exporting of variables
 * perl-OLE-Storage_Lite | Simple Class for OLE document interface
 * perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel | Write formatted text and numbers to a cross-platform Excel binary file
 * perl-SQL-Abstract | Generate SQL from Perl data structures
 * perl-Tie-DBI | Tie hashes to DBI relational databases
 * perl-UNIVERSAL-exports | Lightweight, universal exporting of variables
 * perl-UNIVERSAL-moniker | Real world naming for classes
 * pexpect | Pure Python Expect-like module
 * php-extras | Additional PHP modules from the standard PHP distribution
 * php-pecl-memcache | Extension to work with the Memcached caching daemon
 * python-boto | A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
 * rootsh | Shell wrapper for auditing
 * shapelib | API in "C" for Shapefile handling
 * xbase | XBase compatible database library and tools
 * xbiso | ISO extraction utility for xdvdfs images
 * xbsql | A SQL wrapper for xbase
 * xclip | Command line clipboard grabber
 * yum-cron | Files needed to run yum updates as a cron job

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 413

Number of binary packages: 827

There are 30 new Packages:


 * createrepo | Creates a common metadata repository
 * gmrun | Lightweight "Run program" dialog box with search history and tab completion
 * iftop | Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface
 * pdns | A modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver
 * perl-CGI-Simple | Simple totally OO CGI interface that is CGI.pm compliant
 * perl-CGI-Untaint | Process CGI input parameters
 * perl-Class-Trigger | Mixin to add / call inheritable triggers
 * perl-Class-Whitehole | Base class to treat unhandled method calls as errors
 * perl-Date-Simple | Simple date object for perl
 * perl-Exporter-Lite | Lightweight exporting of variables
 * perl-OLE-Storage_Lite | Simple Class for OLE document interface
 * perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel | Write formatted text and numbers to a cross-platform Excel binary file
 * perl-SQL-Abstract | Generate SQL from Perl data structures
 * perl-String-CRC32 | Perl interface for cyclic redundancy check generation
 * perl-Tie-DBI | Tie hashes to DBI relational databases
 * perl-UNIVERSAL-exports | Lightweight, universal exporting of variables
 * perl-UNIVERSAL-moniker | Real world naming for classes
 * pexpect | Pure Python Expect-like module
 * php-idn | PHP API for GNU LibIDN
 * python-boto | A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
 * python-elementtree | Fast XML parser and writer
 * python-urlgrabber | A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber
 * rootsh | Shell wrapper for auditing
 * shapelib | API in "C" for Shapefile handling
 * tidy | Utility to clean up and pretty print HTML/XHTML/XML
 * xbase | XBase compatible database library and tools
 * xbiso | ISO extraction utility for xdvdfs images
 * xbsql | A SQL wrapper for xbase
 * xclip | Command line clipboard grabber
 * yum | RPM installer/updater