EPEL/Reports/Week27

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 27/2007

Most important happenings

 * Policy for "Branching for EPEL if Fedora maintainer does not react" was approved


 * target date for for official EPEL announcement: July 19; we need to fix all broken deps beforehand (and make sure any new ones hit the repo)

Attending
From the Steering Committee:


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

Others that participated the meeting:

Summary

 * EPEL Meeting – broken deps – nirik:


 * Jeff_S will be responsible for this topic; nirik will try to help


 * we need to poke people; they likely don't even know that there are broken dep


 * running a repoclosure before push would be ideal, but not easy; we should get that with bodhi sooner or later, so we don't look deeper into this issue


 * spam o magic script (broken deps) – mmcgrath


 * mmcgrath is looking at it; he committed to have it ready by the next meeting


 * Move epel dirs on servers down below stable – knurd


 * last week decided, this week reverted.


 * Branch for EPEL if Fedora maintainer does not react – knurd, _blah_


 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00016.html got approved, knurd added it to the wiki. We likely need to adjust a small detail; see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-July/msg00332.html


 * signers group – dgilmore


 * dgilmore and mmcgrath can push and sign; that is considered enough for now


 * finish the wiki docs and remove the warnings by end of may – quaid


 * round about ready; quaid has some changes pending, but nothing major


 * warning on the top EPEL-page in the wiki will get removed shortly before announcement


 * EPEL announcement -- quaid

soon; shortly after that early announce to f-maintainers
 * early announce draft to epel-devel-l
 * followed by first draft of real announcement to e-d-l
 * finally announce on Jul 19


 * RHX and EPEL – quaid


 * seems some people still don't really know that RHX actually is

. I think the RHX folks feel the same; they have no need to duplicate what we do for no reason, and lose the gain of the community . It's going to be a few weeks until we can get a formal set of guidelines between the two groups . Mainly it's about the messaging, making sure that it's easy to know the difference between a package from EPEL and one from RHX . I made the point that ISVs can control that best if the ... actually own the package in Fedora :) "
 * general agreement to "we should try to work it so that Free and open source software in RHX is available in EPEL with community support"; quaid> "I doubt we'll have any problem with that idea

Full Log
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00019.html

General
Number of EPEL Contributors 107

We welcome 6 new contributors: gemi_AT_bluewin.ch, ghenry_AT_suretecsystems.com, mdehaan_AT_redhat.com, mszpak_AT_wp.pl, rich_AT_phekda.gotadsl.co.uk, rpm_AT_greysector.net

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 439

Number of binary packages: 799

There are 34 new Packages:


 * alsamixergui | GUI mixer for ALSA sound devices


 * artwiz-aleczapka-fonts | Set of (improved) artwiz fonts


 * blacs | Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subprograms


 * c-ares | A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations


 * cobbler | Boot server configurator


 * cronolog | Web log rotation program for Apache


 * dar | Software for making/restoring incremental CD/DVD backups


 * dx | Open source version of IBM's Visualization Data Explorer


 * eclipse-subclipse | Subversion Eclipse plugin


 * evolution-bogofilter | A plugin for bogofilter support in evolution


 * ftplib | Library of FTP routines


 * gxemul | Instruction-level machine emulator


 * itk | Object oriented extensions to Tk


 * jam | Program construction tool, similar to make


 * JSDoc | Produces javadoc-style documentation from JavaScript sourcefiles


 * koan | Network provisioning tool for Xen and Bare Metal Machines


 * lapack | The LAPACK libraries for numerical linear algebra.


 * libcgi | CGI easy as C


 * perl-Lingua-EN-Inflect | Convert singular to plural, select "a" or "an"


 * perl-Lingua-EN-Inflect-Number | Force number of words to singular or plural


 * perl-version | Perl extension for Version Objects


 * php-pear-Phlickr | Phlickr is a PHP5 based api kit used with the Flickr API


 * php-spyc | A simple php yaml class


 * planet | Flexible RDF/RSS/Atom feed aggregator


 * python-isprelink | Python module to determine if a file has been prelinked


 * R | A language for data analysis and graphics


 * R-RScaLAPACK | An interface to perform parallel computation on linear algebra problems using ScaLAPACK


 * scalapack | A subset of LAPACK routines redesigned for heterogenous computing


 * uread | Utilities for unformatted fortran files

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 271

Number of binary packages: 560

There are 19 new Packages:


 * alsamixergui | GUI mixer for ALSA sound devices


 * artwiz-aleczapka-fonts | Set of (improved) artwiz fonts


 * c-ares | A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations


 * cobbler | Boot server configurator


 * ftplib | Library of FTP routines


 * gxemul | Instruction-level machine emulator


 * jam | Program construction tool, similar to make


 * JSDoc | Produces javadoc-style documentation from JavaScript sourcefiles


 * koan | Network provisioning tool for Xen and Bare Metal Machines


 * libcgi | CGI easy as C


 * perl-Lingua-EN-Inflect | Convert singular to plural, select "a" or "an"


 * perl-Lingua-EN-Inflect-Number | Force number of words to singular or plural


 * perl-version | Perl extension for Version Objects


 * php-spyc | A simple php yaml class


 * python-isprelink | Python module to determine if a file has been prelinked


 * R | A language for data analysis and graphics


 * uread | Utilities for unformatted fortran files