EPEL/Reports/Week26

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 26/2007

Most important happenings

 * Jeff Sheltren is new Steering Committee member (he replaces Axel Thimm, who left some weeks ago)


 * wiki docs will be ready and reviewed soon; @everyone: everything fine with the docs? anything missing?


 * things that need do be done before EPEL announcement: fix broken deps, final repo layout, check if everything is okay

Attending
From the Steering Committee:


 * Jeff_S (Jeff Sheltren)
 * knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
 * mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
 * nirik (KevinFenzi)
 * quiad (KarstenWade)

Missing from the Steering Committee:


 * dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
 * stahnma (MichaelStahnke)

Others that participated the meeting: notting, rdieter, f13, _blah_

Summary

 * bodhi/testing repo/final repo layout – nirik/lmacken


 * the plan is to move on using plague and the extras push scripts for the near future; koji plus bodhi later (hopefully soon; needs koji improvements that need to be written)


 * we move the current repo down one level (hardlinking the files, to make mirrors happy) into a subdirectory "stable" to leave room on the server for other EPEL in the future (that might happen or not).


 * we freeze the current repo and make the testing repo the default target for now and hand-move packages over to the stable repo when needed manually (information flow: via wiki) – e.g. new packages that were in testing for some days as well as important bugfixes (security, hard crashers, ...)


 * finish the wiki docs and remove the warnings by end of may – quaid


 * quaid and Jess_S are working on it; seems to be in the final stages


 * unresolved deps / packages missing in owners.epel.list


 * we should solve the broken deps soon (needed before announcement);


 * nirik will poke maintainers (help from SIG members would likely be appreciated);


 * mmcgrath will try to set up the broken deps checker script somewhere that spmas maintainers and the list in case of broken deps


 * should we try to bug c4chris, so he runs his package status script for epel as well?


 * vacant seat in the steering committee


 * Jeff_S was elected by the Steering Committee members to fill Axel's seat


 * Free discussion around EPEL


 * _blah_> "i've requested a few packages from fedora maintainers that have not gotten back to me... what is the next step in getting those packages into epel?"; knurd mailed the Fedora list about this; see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg02614.html; revisit next week


 * notting> "do we want a separate excludearch tracker for epel, or piggyback on the fedora one?" -> moved to the list, revisit next week


 * f13> "has there been any progress on the RHX issue?" - quaid is supposed to do some looking into it IIRC

Full Log
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00000.html

General
Number of EPEL Contributors 101

We welcome 3 new contributors: mcepl_AT_redhat.com, qspencer_AT_ieee.org, skvidal_AT_linux.duke.edu

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 405

Number of binary packages: 736

There are 12 new Packages:
 * bzr | Friendly distributed version control system
 * cvs2svn | CVS to Subversion Repository Converter
 * glpk | GNU Linear Programming Kit
 * itcl | Object oriented extensions to Tcl and Tk
 * python-dateutil | Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module
 * python-feedparser | Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python
 * python-matplotlib | Python plotting library
 * python-memcached | A Python memcached client library
 * python-paramiko | A SSH2 protocol library for python
 * pytz | World Timezone Definitions for Python
 * re2c | Tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions
 * yum-utils | Utilities based around the yum package manager

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 252

Number of binary packages: 529

There are 4 new Packages:
 * cvs2svn | CVS to Subversion Repository Converter
 * itcl | Object oriented extensions to Tcl and Tk
 * python-feedparser | Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python
 * re2c | Tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions