EPEL/Reports/Week20

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 20/2007

Most important happenings

 * mether (RahulSundaram) did some proof reading and cleanups in various EPEL documents in the wiki; thx for your help mether! quaid (KarstenWade) is also working on cleaning up the wiki.


 * "start signal" for Fedora contributors was send; see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-May/msg00323.html ; EPEL got quite some new contributors and packages due to it


 * some discussions about the proper update strategy for packages

Attending
From the Steering Committee:
 * dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
 * knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
 * mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
 * nirik (KevinFenzi)
 * quiad (KarstenWade)

Stahnma (MichaelStahnke) just missed the meeting.

Others that participated the meeting: Jeff_S, lmacken, smooge

Summary

 * 00:02 -- repotags/interaction with 3rd party repos -- owner: all


 * we wait for more discussion on the list (in particular for Fernando Lopez-Lezcano before we decide how to move on)


 * knurd also want to discuss cooperation with CentOS/z00dax a bit, which might have impact to this, too


 * 00:04 -- vacant seat in the steering committee

kind of answers; we wait another week and evaluate; maybe z00dax could join the Steering Committee (even without being a contributor for EPEL, as he can't sign the CLA)
 * knurd mailed those five people thimm proposed; four answered; they gave a "no" or a "only if you don't find somebody else"


 * 00:06 -- finish the wiki docs and remove the warnings


 * mether and quaid did some cleanups; quaid will do some more over the next few days; the plan is to remove the those "not official yet" warning by next weeks meeting, but the EPEL repo itself stays unannounced


 * some discussion about bodhi with lmacken under this topic; see full log for details


 * 00:14 -- Free discussion around EPEL


 * 00:15 nirik asked for comments regarding Xfce in EPEL, as Xfce will soon get into CentOS Extras, too; (see full log for details); knurd mentions that we should have it in EPEL, even if CentOS Extras has it, but we should try to find a way of cooperation so bugfixes find their way into CentOS Extras, EPEL and Fedora


 * 00:20 nirik> "oh, how about mock configs?" dgilmore will make sure they work


 * 00:25 smooge> "Will we be answering who the EPEL customers are thought to be to distinguish it from other customer bases?"; we continue on the list, but we maybe should write something up and put it in the wiki


 * 00:26 some discussions about RHEL subscriptions for testing; quiad "I haven't gotten too far with that ... still looking for the right person"; lots of people say that CentOS should be god enough for testing normally; but having some testboxes with RHEL around might be helpful

Full meeting log
See https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-May/msg00088.html

General
Number of EPEL Contributors 74

We welcome 13 new contributors: dcm_AT_acm.org, dev_AT_nigelj.com, eric.tanguy_AT_univ-nantes.fr, fedora_AT_theholbrooks.org, frank-buettner_AT_gmx.net, gajownik_AT_gmail.com, gilboad_AT_gmail.com, jeff.gilchrist_AT_gmail.com, jwb_AT_redhat.com, lxtnow_AT_gmail.com, mfleming+rpm_AT_enlartenment.com, ruben_AT_rubenkerkhof.com, trond.danielsen_AT_gmail.com

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 274

Number of binary packages: 437

There are 49 new Packages:


 * autodir | Creates user directories on demand


 * cgdb | CGDB is a curses-based interface to the GNU Debugger (GDB)


 * DMitry | Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool


 * drgeo-doc | Html documentation for drgeo


 * drgeo | Interactive educational geometry software


 * freehdl | GPLed free VHDL


 * gperiodic | Program for browsing the periodic table


 * ike-scan | IKE protocol tool to discover, fingerprint and test IPsec VPN servers


 * incron | Inotify cron system


 * ircd-hybrid | Internet Relay Chat Server


 * libiptcdata | IPTC tag library


 * libupnp | Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK


 * nbtscan | Tool to gather NetBIOS info from Windows networks


 * nrpe | Host/service/network monitoring agent for Nagios


 * ocaml | Objective Caml compiler and programming environment


 * pdns | A modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver


 * pdns-recursor | Modern, advanced and high performance recursing/non authoritative nameserver


 * perl-Apache-DBI | Persistent database connections with Apache/mod_perl


 * perl-Boulder | An API for hierarchical tag/value structures


 * perl-DBD-SQLite | Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver


 * perl-HTML-Table | Create HTML tables using simple interface


 * perl-IO-Multiplex | IO-Multiplex module for perl


 * perl-libwhisker2 | Perl module geared specificly for HTTP testing


 * perl-Net-IP-CMatch | Efficiently match IP addresses against IP ranges with C


 * perl-Net-Patricia | Patricia Trie perl module for fast IP address lookups


 * perl-String-Approx | Perl extension for approximate matching (fuzzy matching)


 * perl-XML-DOM | DOM extension to XML::Parser


 * perl-XML-RegExp | Regular expressions for XML tokens


 * php-channel-phpunit | Adds phpunit channel to PEAR


 * php-pear-DB | PEAR: Database Abstraction Layer


 * php-pear-Log | Abstracted logging facility for PHP


 * php-pecl-radius | Radius client library


 * php-pecl-xdebug | PECL package for debugging PHP scripts


 * Pound | Reverse proxy and load balancer


 * python-cheetah | Template engine and code-generator


 * python-docutils | A system for processing plaintext documentation


 * python-krbV | Python extension module for Kerberos 5


 * python-numarray | Python array manipulation and computational library


 * python-protocols | Open Protocols and Component Adaptation for Python


 * python-sqlite2 | DB-API 2.0 interface for SQLite 3.x


 * qucs | Circuit simulator


 * ruby-mysql | A Ruby interface to MySQL


 * scponly | Restricted shell for ssh based file services


 * specto | An desktop application that will watch configurable events


 * ushare | UPnP (TM) A/V Media Server


 * windowlab | Small and Simple Amiga-like Window Manager


 * yum-arch | Extract headers from rpm in a old yum repository

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 186

Number of binary packages: 348

There are 28 new Packages:


 * bugzilla | Bug tracking system


 * DMitry | Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool


 * drgeo-doc | Html documentation for drgeo


 * freehdl | GPLed free VHDL


 * gperiodic | Program for browsing the periodic table


 * ike-scan | IKE protocol tool to discover, fingerprint and test IPsec VPN servers


 * ircd-hybrid | Internet Relay Chat Server


 * libupnp | Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK


 * nbtscan | Tool to gather NetBIOS info from Windows networks


 * ocaml | Objective Caml compiler and programming environment


 * pdns-recursor | Modern, advanced and high performance recursing/non authoritative nameserver


 * perl-Apache-DBI | Persistent database connections with Apache/mod_perl


 * perl-Boulder | An API for hierarchical tag/value structures


 * perl-HTML-Table | Create HTML tables using simple interface


 * perl-libwhisker2 | Perl module geared specificly for HTTP testing


 * perl-Net-IP-CMatch | Efficiently match IP addresses against IP ranges with C


 * perl-Net-Patricia | Patricia Trie perl module for fast IP address lookups


 * perl-String-Approx | Perl extension for approximate matching (fuzzy matching)


 * perl-XML-DOM | DOM extension to XML::Parser


 * perl-XML-RegExp | Regular expressions for XML tokens


 * Pound | Reverse proxy and load balancer


 * python-krbV | Python extension module for Kerberos 5


 * python-numarray | Python array manipulation and computational library


 * qucs | Circuit simulator


 * ruby-mysql | A Ruby interface to MySQL


 * scponly | Restricted shell for ssh based file services


 * specto | An desktop application that will watch configurable events


 * windowlab | Small and Simple Amiga-like Window Manager