EPEL/Reports/Week49

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 49/2007

Most important happenings

 * knurd pushed a lot of packaged from EPEL5/testing to the proper EPEL repo (some were omitted due to broke deps). See these mails for details:


 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00009.html


 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00029.html


 * knurd enhanced the wishlist, added lots of packages and send mails to the Fedora owners:


 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00037.html

Noteworthy discussions

 * major rework for ClamAV in the works; please see: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00019.html

Next Meeting
20071219 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

Last weeks meeting
Full log:


 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00009.html

Attendees:


 * dgilmore


 * knurd


 * mmcgrath


 * nirik


 * quaid


 * stahnma

Summary:


 * RHEL 5.1 (and 4.6) for the builders | dgilmore, mmcgrath


 * mmcgrath will take care of updating the buildroots to 5.1 and do the switch; announcement when happened to the list; 4.6. will be prepared, waiting for CentOS 4.6


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


 * with FE6 EOL we are the only ones left on plague and the old scripts (and without bodhi) which might become a problem sooner or later


 * mmcgrath will try to poke the right people to make koji for EPEL hopefully possible sooner; he will also officially take care of this task from now on ("its going to become an Infrastructure priority anyway, count me in as point man")


 * testing -> stable move for EL5 | knurd | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/NextTestingStableMove


 * prepared and happened when this summary got written (see above)


 * update http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies | unassigned | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc


 * page is a bit oputdated; nirik will take a look to bring it up2date


 * Free discussion around EPEL


 * nirik> | I'd like to throw out a plea for a reviewer for my clamav for epel package... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396171

nirik> | I'd like to get clamav in, but I fear people are afraid because it's not the same as the fedora package. Or that it is and they would have to review that...


 * nirik> | I also have been working on getting munin in... cleaned up the fedora package and am working on the requirements for epel.

General
Number of EPEL Contributors: 143

We welcome 2 new contributers: dsugar, jlaska

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 847

Number of binary packages: 1569

There are 18 new Packages:


 * dsniff | Tools for network auditing and penetration testing


 * fbreader | E-book reader


 * fedora-packager | Tools for setting up a fedora maintainer environment


 * gqview | Image browser and viewer


 * libEMF | A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles


 * libetpan | Portable, efficient middleware for different kinds of mail access


 * libnids | Implementation of an E-component of Network Intrusion Detection System


 * pcapy | A Python interface to libpcap


 * perl-BerkeleyDB | Perl extension for Berkeley DB version 2, 3 or 4


 * perl-Jcode | Perl extension interface for converting Japanese text


 * perl-Unicode-Map8 | Mapping table between 8-bit chars and Unicode for Perl


 * perl-Unicode-Map | Perl module for mapping charsets from and to utf16 unicode


 * perl-Unicode-MapUTF8 | Conversions to and from arbitrary character sets and UTF8


 * perl-Unicode-String | Perl modules to handle various Unicode issues


 * plotutils | GNU vector and raster graphics utilities and libraries


 * pstoedit | Translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats


 * python-pydns | Python module for DNS (Domain Name Service)


 * vala | A modern programming language for GNOME

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 470

Number of binary packages: 926

There are 11 new Packages:


 * aoetools | ATA over Ethernet Tools


 * dsniff | Tools for network auditing and penetration testing


 * fedora-packager | Tools for setting up a fedora maintainer environment


 * libetpan | Portable, efficient middleware for different kinds of mail access


 * libnids | Implementation of an E-component of Network Intrusion Detection System


 * perl-BerkeleyDB | Perl extension for Berkeley DB version 2, 3 or 4


 * perl-Jcode | Perl extension interface for converting Japanese text


 * perl-Unicode-Map8 | Mapping table between 8-bit chars and Unicode for Perl


 * perl-Unicode-Map | Perl module for mapping charsets from and to utf16 unicode


 * perl-Unicode-MapUTF8 | Conversions to and from arbitrary character sets and UTF8


 * perl-Unicode-String | Perl modules to handle various Unicode issues