EPEL/Reports/Week17

= Monthly EPEL Summary =

Week 09/2008 2008-03-15 -> 2008-04-28

Most important happenings

 * Missed a lot of reports. Things got done.. just missed reports
 * RHEL-5.2 beta problems will change firefox-devel and other things.
 * We may have Red Hat Summit Talks (or we might not... news at 11)

Noteworthy discussions

 * Jeff Spaleta added himself to EPEL
 * EL-5 updates were pushed at end of March.
 * EL-4 updates were pushed at middle of April
 * EL-5 updates were pushed at end of April.
 * Wishlist was updated and lots of items pushed.

Next Meeting
Wednesday, 20080507 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

The topics scheduled for the next meeting as well as a rough status for all in-progress steering committee tasks can always be found in the wiki at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Schedule

Stats
The statistics for some items are broken because of changes in yum in RHEL-5 beta.

General
Number of EPEL Contributors:185

We welcome 11 new contributors: fschwarz konradm ravenoak smooge bradbell green joshkayse sandeen huzaifas kairo ianweller

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 387?

Number of binary packages: 843?

There are 13 new Packages:


 * amarok | Media player
 * atop | An advanced interactive monitor to view the load on system and process level
 * bluefish | GTK2 web development application for experienced users
 * cppad | no base package is installed, see cppad-devel and cppad-doc
 * flam3 | Programs to generate and render cosmic recursive fractal flames
 * hydrogen | Advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux
 * imapsync | Tool to migrate email between IMAP servers
 * inadyn | Dynamic DNS Client
 * java-1.6.0-openjdk | OpenJDK Runtime Environment
 * koules | Action game with multiplayer, network and sound support
 * kstart | Daemon version of kinit for Kerberos v5
 * libffi | A portable foreign function interface library
 * libsamplerate | Sample rate conversion library for audio data
 * loudmouth | Loudmouth is a Jabber programming library written in C
 * lsvpd | VPD/hardware inventory utilities for Linux
 * maradns | Authoritative and recursive DNS server made with security in mind
 * mod_suphp | An apache2 module for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners
 * monitor-edid | Tool for probing and parsing monitor EDID
 * nettle | A low-level cryptographic library
 * nsca | Nagios Service Check Acceptor
 * padevchooser | Control applet for PulseAudio
 * perl-Error | Error Perl module
 * perl-HTML-Parser | Perl module for parsing HTML
 * perl-HTML-Template | Perl module to use HTML Templates
 * perl-IO-Capture | Abstract Base Class to build modules to capture output
 * perl-Sub-Name | Name -- or rename -- a sub
 * perl-WWW-Search | Virtual base class for WWW searches
 * perl-XML-Entities | Decode strings with XML entities
 * publican | Common files and scripts for publishing Documentation
 * pulseaudio | Improved Linux sound server
 * pyephem | The astronomy library for Python
 * python-cjson | Fast JSON encoder/decoder for Python
 * python-decorator | Module to simplify usage of decorators
 * python-ply | Python Lex-Yacc
 * rt3 | Request tracker 3
 * tzdata-java | Time zone data for Java language
 * viewmtn | Web interface for Monotone version control system
 * xautolock | Launches a program when your X session has been idle

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 414?

Number of binary packages: 320?

There are 26 new Packages:


 * atop | An advanced interactive monitor to view the load on system and process level
 * bluefish | GTK2 web development application for experienced users
 * flam3 | Programs to generate and render cosmic recursive fractal flames
 * imlib2 | Image loading, saving, rendering, and manipulation library
 * inadyn | Dynamic DNS Client
 * mod_suphp | An apache2 module for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners
 * monitor-edid | Tool for probing and parsing monitor EDID
 * nettle | A low-level cryptographic library
 * nsca | Nagios Service Check Acceptor
 * perl-HTML-Parser | Perl module for parsing HTML
 * perl-HTML-Template | Perl module to use HTML Templates
 * perl-HTML-Tree | HTML tree handling modules for Perl
 * perl-IPC-SharedCache | Perl module to manage a cache in SysV IPC shared memory
 * perl-Text-Aspell | Perl interface to the GNU Aspell library
 * perl-XML-Entities | Decode strings with XML entities
 * perl-XML-TreeBuilder | Parser that builds a tree of XML::Element objects
 * postgis | Geographic Information Systems Extensions to PostgreSQL
 * pptp | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Client
 * publican | Common files and scripts for publishing Documentation
 * publican-fedora | Publican documentation template files for fedora
 * pyke | Knowledge-based inference engine
 * python-ply | Python Lex-Yacc
 * roundcubemail | Round Cube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client
 * synergy | Mouse and keyboard sharing utility
 * taglib | Audio Meta-Data Library
 * wesnoth | Turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme