EPEL/Reports/Week36

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 36/2007

Most important happenings

 * EPEL SIG tried alternative meeting time (23:00 UTC). The participation was nearly identical to meetings taking place at the old time.  More discussion will likely occur on how to engage more EPEL involvement.


 * Stahnma is still investigating the best way to deal with package information to ensure that EPEL is not stepping on packages from RHEL/RHN. Thus far a list of channels with package information is available at stahnma.fedorapeople.org/rhn.


 * Nirik is working on setting up the security groups for EPEL so updates can match be CVEs etc.


 * Nirik will send out information to the list on the best way to notify EPEL if a package needs to be pulled because it conflicts with RHEL/RHN content.


 * Some discussion with with CentOS developers. CentOS developers would like to have a bit more collaberation and ensure that if a package requires updating for EPEL that CentOS be made aware of it also.  (See https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-September/msg00021.html )

Attending
From the Steering Committee:


 * mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
 * nirik (KevinFenzi)
 * stahnma (MichaelStahnke)

Missing from the Steering Committee:


 * knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
 * dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
 * quaid (KarstenWade)
 * Jeff_S (Jeff Sheltren)

Other Participants


 * jwb
 * ivazquez
 * rsc

Full Log
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-September/msg00010.html

General
Number of EPEL Contributors: unknown -- looks like we'll have it next again next week!

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 636

Number of binary packages: 1244

There are 37 new Packages:


 * amtterm | Serial-over-lan (sol) client for Intel AMT
 * dfu-programmer | A Device Firmware Update based USB programmer for Atmel chips
 * dstat | Versatile resource statistics tool
 * erlang | General-purpose programming language and runtime environment
 * gkrellm | Multiple stacked system monitors in one process
 * gkrellm-volume | GKrellM volume plugin
 * hddtemp | Hard disk temperature tool
 * iftop | Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface
 * imlib | An image loading and rendering library for X11R6
 * jhead | Tool for displaying EXIF data embedded in JPEG images
 * libcdio | CD-ROM input and control library
 * libmodplug | Modplug mod music file format library
 * libmpcdec | Musepack audio decoding library
 * perl-CGI-Simple | Simple totally OO CGI interface that is CGI.pm compliant
 * perl-CGI-Untaint-date | Validate a date
 * perl-CGI-Untaint | Process CGI input parameters
 * perl-Class-Trigger | Mixin to add / call inheritable triggers
 * perl-Class-Whitehole | Base class to treat unhandled method calls as errors
 * perl-Date-Simple | Simple date object for perl
 * perl-Exporter-Lite | Lightweight exporting of variables
 * perl-OLE-Storage_Lite | Simple Class for OLE document interface
 * perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel | Write formatted text and numbers to a cross-platform Excel binary file
 * perl-SQL-Abstract | Generate SQL from Perl data structures
 * perl-Tie-DBI | Tie hashes to DBI relational databases
 * perl-UNIVERSAL-exports | Lightweight, universal exporting of variables
 * perl-UNIVERSAL-moniker | Real world naming for classes
 * pexpect | Pure Python Expect-like module
 * php-extras | Additional PHP modules from the standard PHP distribution
 * php-pecl-memcache | Extension to work with the Memcached caching daemon
 * python-boto | A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
 * rootsh | Shell wrapper for auditing
 * shapelib | API in "C" for Shapefile handling
 * xbase | XBase compatible database library and tools
 * xbiso | ISO extraction utility for xdvdfs images
 * xbsql | A SQL wrapper for xbase
 * xclip | Command line clipboard grabber
 * yum-cron | Files needed to run yum updates as a cron job

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 415

Number of binary packages: 847

There are 32 new Packages:


 * createrepo | Creates a common metadata repository
 * gmrun | Lightweight "Run program" dialog box with search history and tab completion
 * iftop | Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface
 * pdns | A modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver
 * perl-CGI-Simple | Simple totally OO CGI interface that is CGI.pm compliant
 * perl-CGI-Untaint-date | Validate a date
 * perl-CGI-Untaint | Process CGI input parameters
 * perl-Class-Trigger | Mixin to add / call inheritable triggers
 * perl-Class-Whitehole | Base class to treat unhandled method calls as errors
 * perl-Date-Simple | Simple date object for perl
 * perl-Exporter-Lite | Lightweight exporting of variables
 * perl-OLE-Storage_Lite | Simple Class for OLE document interface
 * perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel | Write formatted text and numbers to a cross-platform Excel binary file
 * perl-SQL-Abstract | Generate SQL from Perl data structures
 * perl-String-CRC32 | Perl interface for cyclic redundancy check generation
 * perl-Tie-DBI | Tie hashes to DBI relational databases
 * perl-UNIVERSAL-exports | Lightweight, universal exporting of variables
 * perl-UNIVERSAL-moniker | Real world naming for classes
 * pexpect | Pure Python Expect-like module
 * php-idn | PHP API for GNU LibIDN
 * php-pecl-memcache | Extension to work with the Memcached caching daemon
 * python-boto | A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
 * python-elementtree | Fast XML parser and writer
 * python-urlgrabber | A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber
 * rootsh | Shell wrapper for auditing
 * shapelib | API in "C" for Shapefile handling
 * tidy | Utility to clean up and pretty print HTML/XHTML/XML
 * xbase | XBase compatible database library and tools
 * xbiso | ISO extraction utility for xdvdfs images
 * xbsql | A SQL wrapper for xbase
 * xclip | Command line clipboard grabber
 * yum | RPM installer/updater