EPEL/Reports/Week24

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 24/2007

Most important happenings
The EPEL Steering Committee discussed the repotags issue once again and once again voted to not use repotags for EPEL. Some discussions started after that; see https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-June/msg00041.html for their start.

Attending
From the Steering Committee:


 * knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis) (partly)
 * mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
 * nirik (KevinFenzi)
 * dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
 * stahnma (MichaelStahnke)
 * quiad (KarstenWade) (had fun at the dentist)

Missing from the Steering Committee: nobody

Others that participated the meeting: Jeff_S, smooge, notting, lancelan,  f13, spot,

Summary

 * lots of discussion around repotags again; see the full log for details; four votes against repotags, two people are undecided; so once again the decision is "no repotags"

-- should be part of the latest release
 * EPEL mock configs in Fedora's mock package


 * comps.xml for EPEL -- dgilmore is working on it; he'll check something into cvs soon and then post to the list asking people to look over it


 * finish the wiki docs and remove the warnings by end of may
 * quaid, puts in up on his to-do list as a high priority

General
Number of EPEL Contributors 90

We welcome 4 new contributors: dan_AT_danny.cz, jafo-redhat_AT_tummy.com, jafo_AT_tummy.com, mmahut_AT_redhat.com, rob.myers_AT_gtri.gatech.edu, ville.skytta_AT_iki.fi

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 359

Number of binary packages: 578

There are 48 new Packages:
 * akode | Audio-decoding framework
 * bonnie++ | Filesystem and disk benchmark & burn-in suite
 * digitemp | Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire device reading console application
 * exiv2 | Exif and Iptc metadata manipulation library
 * factory | C++ class library for multivariate polynomial data
 * fltk | C++ user interface toolkit
 * gc | C++ Garbage Collector
 * glump | A small web application to glue files from multiple sources
 * kannel | WAP and SMS gateway
 * kflickr | Standalone Flickr Uploader for KDE
 * kodos | Visual regular expression editor
 * libfac | An extension to Singular-factory
 * libksba | X.509 library
 * lua | Powerful light-weight programming language
 * Macaulay2 | System for algebraic geometry and commutative algebra
 * maxima | Symbolic Computation Program
 * mdsplib | METAR Decoder Software Package Library
 * nikto | Web server scanner
 * ntfs-config | A front-end to Enable/disable NTFS write support
 * ntl | High-performance algorithms for vectors, matrices, and polynomials
 * OpenEXR | A high dynamic-range (HDR) image file format
 * openslp | Open implementation of Service Location Protocol V2
 * perl-Convert-BinHex | Macintosh BinHex extractor library for Perl
 * perl-GDGraph | Graph generation package for Perl
 * perl-GD | Perl interface to the GD graphics library
 * perl-GDTextUtil | Text utilities for use with GD
 * perl-IO-stringy | I/O on in-core objects like strings and arrays for Perl
 * perl-MIME-tools | Modules for parsing and creating MIME entities in Perl
 * php-pear-PhpDocumentor | The complete documentation solution for PHP
 * postgresql-pgpoolAdmin | PgpoolAdmin - web-based pgpool administration
 * python-genshi | Toolkit for stream-based generation of output for the web
 * python-imaging | Python's own image processing library
 * python-IPy | Python module for handling IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses and Networks
 * python-kid | Kid - A simple and pythonic XML template language
 * python-pgsql | Enhanced python interface to PostgreSQL
 * qgit | QGit is a git GUI repository browser
 * redet-doc | Documentation for redet
 * redet | Regular expression development and execution tool
 * sbcl | Steel Bank Common Lisp
 * SDL_image | Image loading library for SDL
 * SDL_mixer | Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library
 * SDL_net | SDL portable network library
 * SDL_ttf | Simple DirectMedia Layer TrueType Font library
 * xar | The eXtensible ARchiver
 * xdg-utils | Basic desktop integration functions
 * xforms | XForms toolkit library

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 230

Number of binary packages: 423

There are 19 new Packages:
 * bonnie++ | Filesystem and disk benchmark & burn-in suite
 * digitemp | Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire device reading console application
 * lua | A powerful light-weight programming language
 * mdsplib | METAR Decoder Software Package Library
 * mock | Builds packages inside chroots
 * nikto | Web server scanner
 * perl-Convert-BinHex | Macintosh BinHex extractor library for Perl
 * perl-IO-stringy | I/O on in-core objects like strings and arrays for Perl
 * postgresql-pgpoolAdmin | PgpoolAdmin - web-based pgpool administration
 * python-IPy | Python module for handling IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses and Networks
 * python-pgsql | Enhanced python interface to PostgreSQL
 * qgit | QGit is a git GUI repository browser
 * redet-doc | Documentation for redet
 * redet | Regular expression development and execution tool
 * SDL_image | Image loading library for SDL
 * SDL_mixer | Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library
 * SDL_net | SDL portable network library
 * SDL_ttf | Simple DirectMedia Layer TrueType Font library
 * xar | The eXtensible ARchiver