EPEL/Reports/Week28

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 28/2007

Most important happenings

 * target date for for official EPEL announcement was set back by one week onto July the 26th. We need more time to fix all broken deps beforehand (and make sure any new ones hit the repo). Volunteers that help with that would be greatly appreciated.


 * discussions on the mailing list how to handle python-imaging -- it's in EL5Client, but not in EL5Server; thus if we don't ship it users will run into broken deps on EL5Server

Attending
From the Steering Committee:


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

Missing from the Steering Committee:


 * stahnma (MichaelStahnke)

Others that participated the meeting: daMaestro

Summary

 * broken deps/spam-o-magic – Jeff_S/mmcgrath


 * not much progress


 * mmcgrath still fighting with the script (the latest version seems to depend on koji) he'll talk to mschwendt to find one for EPEL/get help


 * EPEL announcement – quiad


 * we push the estimated announce-date back by one week to 20070726 -- we need more time to fix deps (aka: "release early, but only when it's not broken")


 * push new packages to testing after EPEL annoucement – dgilmore


 * we discussed how to handle new and updated packages in the near future. We proceed as planed earlier: push everything to testing/ (which will become stable with the next quarterly update) and hand-move important updates over to stable; knurd and nirik are willing to help with that job, as that's a manual process. We need a wiki page and/or a e-mail alias for that. The problem will be solved with switching to bodhi in the long term


 * new meeting time? – all (see also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/NewMeetingTime )


 * no new meeting time wound yet; looks a bit like everyone who edited the page likes the current time


 * ExcludeArch TrackerBugs for EPEL – notting/knurd


 * some discussions, no agreement; discuss issue on the list again


 * free discussions


 * some derogatory comments about EPEL on another mailing list and some discussions how to improve our docs to avoid make clear what EPEL wants/what EPEL is about

Full Log
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00086.html

General
Number of EPEL Contributors 110

We welcome 3 new contributors: jgranado_AT_redhat.com, lindner_AT_inuus.com, roland_AT_redhat.com

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 462

Number of binary packages: 834

There are 23 new Packages:


 * archivemail | A tool for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes


 * colordiff | Color terminal highlighter for diff files


 * cvsps | Patchset tool for CVS


 * fftw | Fast Fourier Transform library


 * fwrestart | A way to more safely re-load firewall rules remotely


 * geomview | Interactive 3D viewing program


 * glibmm24 | C++ interface for GTK2 (a GUI library for X)


 * gshutdown | GShutDown is an advanced shut down utility for GNOME


 * libpaper | Library and tools for handling papersize


 * libsigc++20 | Typesafe signal framework for C++


 * limph | A PHP5-compatible network host/service poller with web interface


 * mod_evasive | Denial of Service evasion module for Apache


 * mussh | Multihost SSH wrapper


 * mysql-proxy | A proxy for the MySQL Client/Server protocol


 * ntfsprogs | NTFS filesystem libraries and utilities


 * perl-MogileFS-Client | Client library for the MogileFS distributed file system


 * pylibacl | POSIX.1e ACLs library wrapper for python


 * pyxattr | Extended attributes library wrapper for Python


 * roundcubemail | Round Cube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client


 * scrub | Disk scrubbing program


 * sub2srt | Convert files in .sub format to .srt


 * tiquit | A PHP5-compatible help desk incident tracking/knowledgebase system

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 284

Number of binary packages: 583

There are 13 new Packages:


 * archivemail | A tool for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes


 * fftw | Fast Fourier Transform library


 * geomview | Interactive 3D viewing program


 * itk | Object oriented extensions to Tk


 * libpaper | Library and tools for handling papersize


 * limph | A PHP5-compatible network host/service poller with web interface


 * perl-MogileFS-Client | Client library for the MogileFS distributed file system


 * pylibacl | POSIX.1e ACLs library wrapper for python


 * pyxattr | Extended attributes library wrapper for Python


 * scrub | Disk scrubbing program


 * sub2srt | Convert files in .sub format to .srt


 * tiquit | A PHP5-compatible help desk incident tracking/knowledgebase system