EPEL/Reports/Week51

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 51/2007

Most important happenings

 * EPEL4 builders now use RHEL 4.6


 * alpine now in EPEL

Noteworthy discussions

 * perl modules in EPEL

Next Meeting
20080201 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

Last weeks meeting
Attendees:


 * mmcgrath
 * nirik
 * stahnma

Topics:


 * RHEL MetaData | stahnma | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/RhelMetaData


 * stahnma> I have been working on a something that spits out requires/provides/filelisting etc for each rpm . I am actually surprised repoview doesn't have something like that


 * stuff will be hosted on fedorapeople


 * No ETA; stahnma> "I was hoping to have it done today, but that didn't happen ; maybe next coupel weeks. Holidays screw up schedules "


 * KojiAndBodhiForEpel


 * mmcgrath> the wheels are in motion to try to get funding for an intern but nothing concrete yet.


 * RHEL 5.1 (and 4.6) for the builders


 * thats done now, right?


 * how to do it next time still under discussion


 * nirik> | another issue related here: updates for builders? would it be hard to get them to pull updates into the buildroot ?


 * mmcgrath> | If we decide thats what we want to do we'll also have to figure out a way to do it. Right now going from RHEL5 -> 5.1 involved me downloading the DVD's, copying RPM's over and running createrepo.


 * more on the list


 * update http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies


 * nirik> | I updated the page... if everyone could look and correct/add/modify, feel free.


 * Free discussion


 * anything planned on EPEL at FUDcon? Maybe a EPEL meeting at fudcon... perhaps a 'Fedora maintainers intro to EPEL' ?


 * stahnma> | also, it's great to see so many new packages in EPEL lately


 * nirik> | I am still working on getting munin in... need some more perl deps. Will probibly start on Xfce over the holidays too.

General
Number of EPEL Contributors: 161

We welcome 6 new contributors: bellet bojan deji jbowes key pwouters

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 923

Number of binary packages: 1702

There are 31 new Packages:


 * acpitool | Command line ACPI client


 * alpine | UW Alpine mail user agent


 * asa | Convert Fortran carriage control characters


 * BibTool | A Tool for manipulating BibTeX data bases


 * bitmap | Bitmap editor and converter utilities for the X Window System


 * cppunit | C++ unit testing framework


 * docbook2X | Convert docbook into man and Texinfo


 * elektra | A key/value pair database to store software configurations


 * esmtp | User configurable relay-only Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)


 * gparted | Gnome Partition Editor


 * mISDN | Userspace part of Modular ISDN stack


 * monotone | A free, distributed version control system


 * nautilus-actions | Nautilus extension for customizing the context menu


 * netbsd-iscsi | User-space implementation of iSCSI target from NetBSD project


 * perl-HTTP-Server-Simple | Very simple standalone HTTP daemon


 * perl-IO-Tty | Perl interface to pseudo tty's


 * perl-IPC-Run | Perl module for interacting with child processes


 * perl-Locale-Maketext-Fuzzy | Maketext from already interpolated strings


 * perl-Log-Dispatch | Dispatches messages to one or more outputs


 * perl-Mail-Sender | Module for sending mails with attachments through an SMTP server


 * perl-Mail-Sendmail | Simple platform independent mailer for Perl


 * perl-Module-ScanDeps | Recursively scan Perl code for dependencies


 * perl-PAR-Dist | Toolkit for creating and manipulating Perl PAR distributions


 * perl-Text-Aspell | Perl interface to the GNU Aspell library


 * pyflakes | A Lint-like tool for Python


 * python-ctypes | Advanced Foreign Function Interface for Python


 * python-openid | Python OpenID libraries


 * python-pycurl | A Python interface to libcurl


 * trousers | Implementation of the TCG's Software Stack v1.2 Specification


 * viewvc | Browser interface for CVS and SVN version control repositories


 * xbae | Motif matrix, caption and text input widgets

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 534

Number of binary packages: 1035

There are 29 new Packages:


 * acpitool | Command line ACPI client


 * alpine | UW Alpine mail user agent


 * asa | Convert Fortran carriage control characters


 * BibTool | A Tool for manipulating BibTeX data bases


 * cernlib | General purpose CERN library


 * cppunit | C++ unit testing framework


 * docbook2X | Convert docbook into man and Texinfo


 * esmtp | User configurable relay-only Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)


 * ganglia | Ganglia Distributed Monitoring System


 * libesmtp | SMTP client library


 * pcapdiff | Compares packet captures, detects forged, dropped or mangled packets


 * perl-Archive-Tar | A module for Perl manipulation of .tar files


 * perl-Archive-Zip | Perl library for accessing Zip archives


 * perl-Compress-Zlib | Interface to zlib compression library


 * perl-IO-String | Emulate file interface for in-core strings


 * perl-IO-Tty | Perl interface to pseudo tty's


 * perl-IO-Zlib | IO:: style interface to Compress::Zlib


 * perl-IPC-Run | Perl module for interacting with child processes


 * perl-Locale-Maketext-Fuzzy | Maketext from already interpolated strings


 * perl-Mail-Sender | Module for sending mails with attachments through an SMTP server


 * perl-Mail-Sendmail | Simple platform independent mailer for Perl


 * perl-Module-Build | Perl module for building and installing Perl modules


 * perl-PAR-Dist | Toolkit for creating and manipulating Perl PAR distributions


 * pyflakes | A Lint-like tool for Python


 * python-genshi | Toolkit for stream-based generation of output for the web


 * python-openid | Python OpenID libraries


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


 * viewvc | Browser interface for CVS and SVN version control repositories


 * xbae | Motif matrix, caption and text input widgets