EPEL/Reports/Week39

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 39/2007

Most important happenings

 * Nothing major

Attending

 * dgilmore
 * f13
 * knurd
 * marek
 * mmcgrath
 * nirik
 * quaid
 * warren

Summary

 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/PackageMaintainer/GenericJobDescription and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/CommunicationPlan -- quaid


 * both were approved -- nobody complained on the list last time it was discussed (that was some weeks ago) and we can easily updated when people want to see something changed


 * task--quaid: put it properly in the wiki (link on the frontpage, everywhere else where needed? and similar stuff)


 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Rhel51 -- unassigned


 * new ask page created by knurd to track preparations we likely should do for 5.1


 * when to remove yum-utils and other packages that are not part of RHEL?


 * leave the package in the repo until at least CentOS catches up, then drop them?


 * nirik> | I'm happy to work on bugging people about broken deps and trying to work on the repo for the next testing/final move.


 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/RhelMetaData -- stahnma


 * skipped


 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/KojiAndBodhiForEpel -- unassigned


 * moving to bodhi requires that we switch to koji, which first needs the ability to hide RHEL binaries from the world


 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc


 * yum-cron


 * things are in the works to get this issue fixed; see https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-September/msg00087.html


 * do more on the list and less in the meetings; "Power to the people with no delay." aka "make Steering Committee nearly unimportant" and "new schedule page"


 * some discussions around this to improve workflow and do stuff like "if nobody complains on the list (or in the IRC meetings) its simply considered accepted"


 * knurd> | it's just a general idea IMHO; we just need to find way to realize that idea; the new stuff in the wiki is a first step for I hope we do more, but I don't know yet exactly what to do; suggestions welcomed


 * Free discussion around EPEL


 * nirik> | I have almost caught up on security checking for epel...


 * nirik> | there are some packages that were never built, but have branches. Might be good if we could gather a list of those and ping maintainers to build or work on deps to build


 * nirik> | finally, did we ever determine about pushing from testing->stable more often? Or should I bring that up on the list again?


 * we prepare one; will decide if we just do it or if we do it together with 5.1


 * dep scripts running for testing these days? mmcgrath> | knurd: I don't think they are, I'll do that now.


 * task--mmcgrath --  dep scripts running for testing

Full Log
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-September/msg00110.html

General
Number of EPEL Contributors 1

We welcome 1 new contributors: till

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 670

Number of binary packages: 1299

There are 9 new Packages:


 * amavisd-new | Email filter with virus scanner and spamassassin support


 * fedora-package-config-smart | Fedora EPEL configuration files for the Smart package manager


 * jack-audio-connection-kit | The Jack Audio Connection Kit


 * libid3tag | ID3 tag manipulation library


 * mathml-fonts | Mathematical symbol fonts


 * optipng | A PNG optimizer and converter


 * python-fedora | Python modules for talking to Fedora Infrastructure Services


 * smart | Next generation package handling tool


 * wavpack | A completely open audiocodec

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 421

Number of binary packages: 859

There are 1 new Packages:


 * wavpack | A completely open audiocodec