EPEL/Reports/Week33

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 33/2007

Most important happenings

 * reminder: now that EPEL is officially announced all new and updates EPEL packages go straight to EPEL-testing and *not* to the stable repo. EPEL-testing packages will (if everything is sane) get moved to stable repo in parallel with a quarterly RHEL update. If you have a security update that needs to go to EPEL-stable build normally and contact ThorstenLeemhuis

There are some discussion to adjust that scheme (sync more often, push new packages directly or after a small warning period to stable, ...); see the list for details at https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00083.html


 * some discussion on the list to do much more on the mailiglist instead of in the meetings -- see https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00071.html


 * two RFC's which might be approved soon got posted to the list --


 * Job description: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00082.html


 * communication plan: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00081.html

if you don't like something speak up now

Attending
From the Steering Committee:


 * knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
 * mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
 * Jeff_S (Jeff Sheltren)
 * quaid (KarstenWade)
 * nirik (KevinFenzi)
 * stahnma (MichaelStahnke)

Missing from the Steering Committee:


 * dgilmore (DennisGilmore) (missed it by a few minutes)

Summary

 * new push scripts for pushing to testing, adjust mock configs to use testing -- dgilmore


 * finished ; thx for your work dgilmore


 * we need to do more stuff with the scripts to be able to push to stable easily; knurd will take a look


 * branch for EPEL if Fedora maintainer does not react


 * finished; dgilmore enhanced the text to fix something knurd complained about. The last sentence reads now: "If the Fedora maintainer later decides to participate in EPEL, then the Fedora maintainer will become co-maintainer for EPEL. (Of course co-maintainership can be extended to Fedora)"


 * yum for EPEL4 -- Jeff_S


 * "How to do it" also got finished :) -- we take the CentOS srpms as base, ship them with a lower release to do no harm to CentOS and remove the yum.conf, as yum without a RHEL4-repo can not be used to install stuff from EPEL, but is of value for stuff like yum-utils or mock


 * EPEL announcement happened -- are we satisfied with how everything worked out?


 * was discussed in the past meetings -- we'll remove it from the schedule, move on and discuss stuff as needed


 * RHX and EPEL -- quaid


 * quiad: "nothing new ; but I haven't asked in a while; forgot it could be on the agenda "


 * communication plan for enterprise customers/ISVs/IHVs -- stahnma, quaid


 * will get send to the list for final discussions


 * Generic Job Description -- quaid


 * will get send to the list for final discussions


 * ExcludeArch TrackerBugs for EPEL -- notting/knurd


 * knurd doesn't find the time for it atm; any volunteers?


 * FESCo mandate/how to move on with SIG and SteeringCommittee


 * current mandate for the EPEL SIG and its Steering Committee is limited until end of September; do we want to move on with the current scheme ? or do we want to elect a sterring committee?


 * some people wondered if elections really make sense


 * we could recommend to FESCo an extension of the mandate for e.g. 6 months


 * stahnma> "I think right now growth of the repo and user-base is where we should putting effort not into politics "


 * quaid> "we seem to have a manageable group without adding or subtracting "


 * mmcgrath> "I guess a specific goal would be good. I mean the obvious goal is there but do we also want to aggressively add more packages?  Add more packagers?  Add more documentation?  Marketing? "


 * "more packages" is still a important goal


 * stahnma> "allow for hostile takeover of maintainane :) "


 * knurd> "maybe we need a sponsor-way for EPEL-only contributors that want to maintain existing packages "


 * we stopped there and will continue this topic on the list and in the next meeting


 * Free discussion around EPEL


 * mmcgrath> "just wanted to say I think the EPEL community is pretty healthy right now, lots of people and packages being built and we're still very young. "


 * Jeff_S_> "I'm happy to try to do most communication on the list and then just finalize things in meetings -- that way we can speed through these faster :) "


 * stahnma> "I liked the speed of today's meeting "

Full Log
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00115.html

General
Number of EPEL Contributors -- now that the pgkdb is in production it's for now not easily determinable (AFAIK)

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 590

Number of binary packages: 1146

There are 79 new Packages (might include some old packages that were moved to testing right before the EPEL announcement):


 * arj | Archiver for .arj files


 * audio-entropyd | Generate entropy from audio output


 * bcfg2 | Configuration management system


 * bugzilla | Bug tracking system


 * cabextract | Utility for extracting cabinet (.cab) archives


 * chmlib | Library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files


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


 * freeze | freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities


 * gdal | GIS file format library


 * geos | GEOS is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite


 * gnome-screensaver-frogs | GNOME Screensaver Slideshow of Frogs


 * google-perftools | Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools


 * guile-cairo | The Cairo graphics library for Guile Scheme


 * guile-lib | A repository of useful code written in Guile Scheme


 * JSDoc | Produces javadoc-style documentation from JavaScript sourcefiles


 * lasi | C++ library for creating Postscript documents


 * libdap | The C++ DAP2 library from OPeNDAP


 * libgeotiff | GeoTIFF format library


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


 * lzop | Real-time file compressor


 * mapserver | Environment for building spatially-enabled internet applications


 * mfstools | Utilities for TiVo drive upgrades


 * moodle | A Course Management System


 * netgo | Networking profile manager


 * nikto | Web server scanner


 * nomarch | GPLed Arc de-archiver


 * ogdi | Open Geographic Datastore Interface


 * oneko | Cat chases the cursor


 * pbzip2 | Parallel implementation of bzip2


 * Perlbal | Reverse-proxy load balancer and webserver


 * perl-Convert-TNEF | Perl module to read TNEF files


 * perl-Convert-UUlib | Perl interface to the uulib library


 * perl-Danga-Socket | Event loop and event-driven async socket base class


 * perl-Device-SerialPort | Linux/POSIX emulation of Win32::SerialPort functions


 * perl-ExtUtils-F77 | Simple interface to F77 libs


 * perl-Gearman-Client-Async | Asynchronous Client for the Gearman distributed job system


 * perl-Gearman | Distributed job system


 * perl-Gearman-Server | Function call "router" and load balancer


 * perl-Image-ExifTool | Utility for reading and writing image meta info


 * perl-IO-AIO | Asynchronous Input/Output


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


 * perl-Mail-SPF-Query | Query Sender Policy Framework


 * perl-MogileFS-Utils | Utilities for MogileFS


 * perl-Net-CIDR-Lite | Net::CIDR::Lite Perl module


 * perl-Net-Pcap | Interface to pcap(3) LBL packet capture library


 * perl-Razor-Agent | Use a Razor catalogue server to filter spam messages


 * perl-Sys-Syscall | Access system calls that Perl doesn't normally provide access to


 * perl-Test-Base | Data Driven Testing Framework


 * perltidy | Tool for indenting and reformatting Perl scripts


 * php-pear-PHP-CodeSniffer | PHP coding standards enforcement tool


 * physfs | Library to provide abstract access to various archives


 * plplot | Library of functions for making scientific plots


 * postgresql-pgpool | Pgpool is a connection pooling/replication server for PostgreSQL


 * proftpd | Flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP server


 * proj | Cartographic projection software (PROJ.4)


 * pv | A tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline


 * pychart | Python library for generating chart images


 * python-Coherence | Python framework to participate in digital living networks


 * python-iniparse | Python Module for Accessing and Modifying Configuration Data in INI files


 * python-lxml | ElementTree-like Python bindings for libxml2 and libxslt


 * python-pygments | A syntax highlighting engine written in Python


 * pyxdg | Python library to access freedesktop.org standards


 * qhull | General dimension convex hull programs


 * qucs | Circuit simulator


 * SDL_mixer | Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library


 * ser2net | Proxy that allows tcp connections to serial ports


 * stripesnoop | Magnetic Stripe Reader


 * svgalib | Low-level fullscreen SVGA graphics library


 * svnmailer | Tool to post subversion repository commit information


 * tcpxtract | Tool for extracting files from network traffic


 * tidy | Utility to clean up and pretty print HTML/XHTML/XML


 * translate-toolkit | A collection of tools to assist software localization


 * udunits | A library for manipulating units of physical quantities


 * ustr | String library, very low memory overhead, simple to import


 * vpnc | IPSec VPN client compatible with Cisco equipment


 * xerces-c | Validating XML Parser


 * xkeycaps | Graphical front end to xmodmap


 * xsupplicant | Open Source Implementation of IEEE 802.1x


 * zabbix | Open-source monitoring solution for your IT infrastructure

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 377

Number of binary packages: 778

There are 62 new Packages (might include some old packages that were moved to testing right before the EPEL announcement):


 * arj | Archiver for .arj files


 * audio-entropyd | Generate entropy from audio output


 * bcfg2 | Configuration management system


 * bugzilla | Bug tracking system


 * chmlib | Library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files


 * cobbler | Boot server configurator


 * freeze | freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities


 * geos | GEOS is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite


 * gnome-screensaver-frogs | GNOME Screensaver Slideshow of Frogs


 * google-perftools | Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools


 * JSDoc | Produces javadoc-style documentation from JavaScript sourcefiles


 * libdap | The C++ DAP2 library from OPeNDAP


 * libgeotiff | GeoTIFF format library


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


 * lzop | Real-time file compressor


 * mfstools | Utilities for TiVo drive upgrades


 * mimedefang | E-Mail filtering framework using Sendmail's Milter interface


 * mock | Builds packages inside chroots


 * mod_security | Security module for the Apache HTTP Server


 * moodle | A Course Management System


 * netgo | Networking profile manager


 * nikto | Web server scanner


 * nomarch | GPLed Arc de-archiver


 * oneko | Cat chases the cursor


 * pbzip2 | Parallel implementation of bzip2


 * perl-Convert-TNEF | Perl module to read TNEF files


 * perl-Convert-UUlib | Perl interface to the uulib library


 * perl-Danga-Socket | Event loop and event-driven async socket base class


 * perl-Device-SerialPort | Linux/POSIX emulation of Win32::SerialPort functions


 * perl-ExtUtils-F77 | Simple interface to F77 libs


 * perl-Image-ExifTool | Utility for reading and writing image meta info


 * perl-IO-AIO | Asynchronous Input/Output


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


 * perl-Mail-SPF-Query | Query Sender Policy Framework


 * perl-Net-CIDR-Lite | Net::CIDR::Lite Perl module


 * perl-Net-Server | Extensible, general Perl server engine


 * perl-Razor-Agent | Use a Razor catalogue server to filter spam messages


 * perl-SOAP-Lite | Client and server side SOAP implementation


 * perl-Sys-Syscall | Access system calls that Perl doesn't normally provide access to


 * physfs | Library to provide abstract access to various archives


 * postgresql-dbi-link | Partial implementation of the SQL/MED portion of the SQL:2003 specification


 * postgresql-pgpoolAdmin | PgpoolAdmin - web-based pgpool administration


 * postgresql-pgpool | Pgpool is a connection pooling/replication server for PostgreSQL


 * proj | Cartographic projection software (PROJ.4)


 * pychart | Python library for generating chart images


 * python-Coherence | Python framework to participate in digital living networks


 * python-lxml | ElementTree-like Python bindings for libxml2 and libxslt


 * pyxdg | Python library to access freedesktop.org standards


 * qucs | Circuit simulator


 * SDL_mixer | Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library


 * ser2net | Proxy that allows tcp connections to serial ports


 * specto | An desktop application that will watch configurable events


 * sqlgrey | Postfix grey-listing policy service


 * stripesnoop | Magnetic Stripe Reader


 * svgalib | Low-level fullscreen SVGA graphics library


 * trac | Enhanced wiki and issue tracking system


 * trac-webadmin | Web interface for administration of Trac


 * udunits | A library for manipulating units of physical quantities


 * xerces-c | Validating XML Parser


 * xkeycaps | Graphical front end to xmodmap


 * xsupplicant | Open Source Implementation of IEEE 802.1x


 * zabbix | Open-source monitoring solution for your IT infrastructure