EPEL/Reports/Week11

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

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

Most important happenings

 * Held meeting at scheduled time.
 * RHEL-5.2 beta announced. Please test :).

Noteworthy discussions

 * RHEL 5.2 beta is out. Some EPEL packages will need to be removed as they are in 5.2

Last weeks meeting
Full Logs:
 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-March/msg00060.html

Attendees:



Thanks to everyone for attending.

Summary:
 * fill the steering committee; one self-nomination: Xavier Lamien| all | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc
 * need to send another email to the list to get nominations.
 * Status Reports | all | Build System, Packages in waiting etc
 * build system working okish
 * no problems that were reported.
 * make broken dep reports work and send them to the list | mmcgrath | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc
 * more of a status report. reports are working and look good.
 * EL-4/EL-5 pushes | knurd
 * pushes going ahead as planned. Working on getting it covered by more than one person.
 * RHEL-5.2beta
 * several packages are going to be replaced with EPEL packages.
 * EPEL will not have a seperate fork for each EL-5.y.z branch... unless there is a demand and volunteers for it.
 * KojiAndBodhiForEpel | mmcgrath, _blah_ | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/KojiAndBodhiForEpel
 * discussion covered why we didn't have it for new people on the conversation
 * discussion of why CentOS is not used.
 * third party vendors want items built with RHEL binaries.. but they aren't showing up on list
 * EPEL being used in RHxx training as built against RHEL binaries
 * more mirrors | smooge | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc
 * a request was made to the mirror list and several mirrors jumped on board. We should have a larger coverage for users.
 * marketing: Logo, Posters, etc?| smooge | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc
 * a request was made on the web-page for artwork. No takers yet for art.

Next Meeting
Wednesday, 20080326 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

General
Number of EPEL Contributors:176

We welcome 1 new contributors: ianweller

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 1143

Number of binary packages: 1845

There are 1 new Packages:


 * maradns | Authoritative and recursive DNS server made with security in mind

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 671

Number of binary packages: 1089