EPEL/Reports/Week50

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 50/2007

Most important happenings

 * Builders now use RHEL 5.1


 * Lots of new packages (see below) -- most of them afaics thx to the wishlist processing; roozbeh added a bunch of perl-packages (some for example needed for rt3) to the wishlist; Fedora owners got a mail for those as well.

Noteworthy discussions

 * EPEL for IA64


 * Tracker bug and bugs for broken deps in EPEL5

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

Last weeks meeting
Non scheduled

General
Number of EPEL Contributors: 155

We welcome 12 new contributors: abompard garrick grenier jnovy mbarnes mgarski mso nhorman pawsa s4504kr somlo wwoods

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 890

Number of binary packages: 1649

There are 40 new Packages:


 * aalib | ASCII art library


 * antiword | MS Word to ASCII/Postscript converter


 * balsa | Mail Client


 * bogofilter | Fast anti-spam filtering by Bayesian statistical analysis


 * brasero | Gnome CD/DVD burning application


 * bsdiff | Binary diff/patch utility


 * codeblocks | An open source, cross platform, free C++ IDE


 * ddd | GUI for several command-line debuggers


 * dkms | Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework


 * dvdisaster | Additional error protection for CD/DVD media


 * enca | Character set analyzer and detector


 * enigma | Clone of the ATARI game Oxyd


 * g2clib | GRIB2 encoder/decoder and search/indexing routines in C


 * gstreamer-python | Python bindings for GStreamer


 * gtranslator | Gettext po file editor for GNOME


 * gxine | GTK frontend for the xine multimedia library


 * inkscape | Vector-based drawing program using SVG


 * iozone | Filesystem benchmarking utility


 * iperf | Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance


 * kyum | Graphical User Frontend (GUI) for yum


 * libburn | Library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs


 * libesmtp | SMTP client library


 * libkexiv2 | A library to manipulate EXIF/IPTC information


 * libtunepimp | A library for creating MusicBrainz enabled tagging applications


 * netdump-server | Server for network kernel message logging and crash dumps


 * pcapdiff | Compares packet captures, detects forged, dropped or mangled packets


 * perl-Authen-SASL | SASL Authentication framework for Perl


 * perl-GSSAPI | Perl extension providing access to the GSSAPIv2 library


 * perl-IO-Interface | Perl extension for accessing network card configuration information


 * perl-Parse-Yapp | Perl extension for generating and using LALR parsers


 * perl-XML-XQL | Perl module for querying XML tree structures with XQL


 * phpldapadmin | Web-based tool for managing LDAP servers


 * php-pear-Image-GraphViz | Interface to AT&T's GraphViz tools


 * pygpgme | Python module for working with OpenPGP messages


 * python-fpconst | Python module for handling IEEE 754 floating point special values


 * shorewall | An iptables front end for firewall configuration


 * snake | Smart Network Automated Kickstart Environment


 * SOAPpy | Full-featured SOAP library for Python


 * taglib | Audio Meta-Data Library


 * testdisk | Tool to check and undelete partition

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 503

Number of binary packages: 973

There are 32 new Packages:


 * aalib | An ASCII art library.


 * bsdiff | Binary diff/patch utility


 * dkms | Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework


 * dvdisaster | Additional error protection for CD/DVD media


 * enca | Character set analyzer and detector


 * enigma | Clone of the ATARI game Oxyd


 * g2clib | GRIB2 encoder/decoder and search/indexing routines in C


 * gtranslator | Gettext po file editor for GNOME


 * inkscape | Vector-based drawing program using SVG


 * iozone | Filesystem benchmarking utility


 * iperf | Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance


 * net6 | A TCP protocol abstraction for library C++


 * obby | A library which provides synced document buffers


 * perl-Authen-SASL | SASL Authentication framework for Perl


 * perl-GSSAPI | Perl extension providing access to the GSSAPIv2 library


 * perl-IO-Interface | Perl extension for accessing network card configuration information


 * phpldapadmin | Web-based tool for managing LDAP servers


 * plotutils | GNU vector and raster graphics utilities and libraries


 * python-cherrypy | A pythonic, object-oriented web development framework


 * python-decoratortools | Use class and function decorators -- even in Python 2.3


 * python-formencode | HTML form validation, generation, and convertion package


 * python-json | A JSON reader and writer for Python


 * python-nose | A discovery-based unittest extension for Python


 * python-paste-script | A pluggable command-line frontend


 * python-ruledispatch | A generic function package for Python


 * python-sqlobject | SQLObject -Object-Relational Manager, aka database wrapper


 * python-tgfastdata | Automatic user interface generation for TurboGears


 * python-turbojson | Python template plugin that supports json


 * python-turbokid | Python template plugin that supports Kid templates


 * shorewall | An iptables front end for firewall configuration


 * testdisk | Tool to check and undelete partition


 * TurboGears | Back-to-front web development in Python