EPEL/Reports/Week45

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 45/2007

Most important happenings

 * nothing earthshaking

Noteworthy discussions

 * RHEL 5.1 -- https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-November/msg00035.html


 * EPEL builders are still RHEL 5.0; moving to RHEL 5.1 now on bears the risk that we break users of CentOS 5.0; no real outcome from the discussion yet; more discussion needed


 * Lots of packages wanted -- https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-November/msg00020.html and https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-November/msg00024.html


 * lots of deps of bugzilla are not yet in EPEL (lots of them: perl); lot's of packages that a 3rd party repo would need to compile xine-lib-extras-nonfree, mplayer and similar stuff are still missing as well; help needed;

Next Meeting
20071107 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

Please note that it's 18:00 UTC now again after the DST switch, so the effective meeting time should stay the same for everyone!

Attendees:

 * mmcgrath


 * nirik

Summary

 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/NextTestingStableMove did the last move went well?

do we want to schedule them for specific times?
 * nirik> | I think the last move went pretty well...

although, since its just you and me, perhaps the list would be better, or just wait till the next meeting to talk about it.
 * mmcgrath> | nirik: I'd schedule a time then see if the list wants us to change it. It could be a while before the next move.


 * nirik> | yeah, I would be happy with once a month or something, then the question is how long something needs to be in testing.


 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/NextTestingStableMove when to do the move in EL4?

plan on perhaps next monday? let the f8 release suck up all the bw, etc.
 * nirik> | I can try and work on it I guess...


 * Clamav


 * nirik is working on it


 * why don't the broken dep reports go to the list?


 * mmcgrath> | A) The script we use, for some reason, can take a long time to run and B) no one's done the work.


 * mmcgrath posted to the list asking people to help so it gets posted to the list


 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc -- how to get all the missing rpmfusion and bugzilla deps into EPEL and the wishlist empty as well?


 * mmcgrath> | I say, Add them to the wish list and get to contacting each packager one by one until everything is in.


 * nirik> | I think contacting maintainers is the best way... and if they don't answer branching, etc.

General
Number of EPEL Contributors: 140

We welcome 3 new contributors: drago01 rjones varekova

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 738

Number of binary packages: 1435

There are 26 new Packages:


 * bodhi | A modular framework that facilitates publishing software updates


 * cdpr | Cisco Discovery Protocol Analyzer


 * Django | A high-level Python Web framework


 * func | Remote config, monitoring, and management api


 * gdl | GNU Data Language


 * gsl | The GNU Scientific Library for numerical analysis


 * gsm | Shared libraries for GSM speech compressor


 * libggz | Library for client-server games


 * libofa | Open Fingerprint Architecture library


 * libpri | An implementation of Primary Rate ISDN


 * perl-Class-Singleton | Class::Singleton Perl module


 * perl-Devel-Symdump | A Perl module for inspecting Perl's symbol table


 * perl-HTML-Tree | HTML tree handling modules for Perl


 * perl-IO-All | IO::All Perl module


 * perl-LockFile-Simple | Simple file locking scheme


 * perl-Text-Reform | Manual text wrapping and reformatting


 * perl-Tk | Perl Graphical User Interface ToolKit


 * postgis | Geographic Information Systems Extensions to PostgreSQL


 * revisor | Fedora "Spin" Graphical User Interface


 * ruby-ldap | Ruby LDAP libraries


 * spandsp | A DSP library for telephony


 * tre | POSIX compatible regexp library with approximate matching


 * unshield | Install InstallShield applications on a Pocket PC


 * wordpress | WordPress blogging software


 * wv2 | A library which allows access to Microsoft® Word files


 * zaptel | Tools and libraries for using/configuring/monitoring Zapata telephony interfaces

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 442

Number of binary packages: 890

There are 8 new Packages:


 * cdpr | Cisco Discovery Protocol Analyzer


 * func | Remote config, monitoring, and management api


 * perl-LockFile-Simple | Simple file locking scheme


 * perl-Tk | Perl Graphical User Interface ToolKit


 * python-configobj | Config file reading, writing, and validation


 * ruby-ldap | Ruby LDAP libraries


 * unshield | Install InstallShield applications on a Pocket PC


 * wv2 | A library which allows access to Microsoft® Word files