EPEL/Reports/Week25

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 25/2007

Most important happenings
We'll likely fill the Vacant Steering Committee Seat over the next week; so if you are interested let knurd know!

Attending
From the Steering Committee:


 * mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
 * nirik (KevinFenzi)
 * dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
 * stahnma (MichaelStahnke)
 * quiad (KarstenWade) (had fun at the dentist)

Missing from the Steering Committee:


 * knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis) (partly)

Others that participated the meeting: rdieter, _blah_,

Summary

 * Finish the wiki -- quaid

> I think all of you have done a good job of making the content ... full and rich
 * quaid
 * so it's a few hours of edits left
 * I'll be able to do an hour today, for sure, so again ... should be done by the end of the week :)


 * Repo-layout


 * looks like Fedora will keep lmacken and mbonnet busy for a while; so we should might towards a solution to annouce epel, but use plague and the old extras push-scripts for the near future; or go without testing for nowdiscuss further on the list


 * some discussion if we want stable and rolling releases


 * Make sure the repo is in good shape


 * we maybe should run the dependency checker script regularly; mmcgrath will look into this


 * Announce EPEL officially

So thats the end of the big picture tasks really.
 * mmcgrath> so we're blocking on the wiki as well as the build stuff.


 * Vacant seat in the steering committee


 * will get discussed on the list


 * Free Discussion:


 * some discussion around RHX and if EPEL can package stuff that's part of it; see full log for details

Full Log
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-June/msg00056.html

General
Number of EPEL Contributors 98

We welcome 8 new contributors: alex_AT_dalloz.de, i_AT_stingr.net, jjohnstn_AT_redhat.com, john_AT_ncphotography.com, jonathansteffan_AT_gmail.com, lists_AT_forevermore.net, otaylor_AT_redhat.com, overholt_AT_redhat.com, robert_AT_marcanoonline.com, than_AT_redhat.com

EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 393

Number of binary packages: 641

There are 34 new Packages:


 * aqbanking | A library for online banking functions and financial data import/export


 * asciidoc | Text based document generation


 * babel | Tools for internationalizing Python applications


 * bash-completion | Programmable completion for Bash


 * checkstyle | Java source code checker


 * ctapi-cyberjack | CT-API 1.1 driver for REINER SCT cyberjack USB chipcard reader


 * cvsplot | Collect statistics from CVS controlled files


 * eclipse-cdt | Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) plugin


 * eclipse-checkstyle | Checkstyle plugin for Eclipse


 * fortune-mod | A program which will display a fortune


 * ganymed-ssh2 | SSH-2 protocol implementation in pure Java


 * git | Git core and tools


 * gnucash-docs | Help files and documentation for the GnuCash personal finanace manager


 * gnucash | GnuCash is an application to keep track of your finances


 * gwenhywfar | A multi-platform helper library for other libraries


 * g-wrap | A tool for creating Scheme interfaces to C libraries


 * jakarta-commons-cli | Command Line Interface Library for Java


 * kmymoney2 | Personal finance


 * libofx | A library for supporting Open Financial Exchange (OFX)


 * mercurial | A fast, lightweight distributed source control management system


 * mksh | MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell


 * mod_security | Security module for the Apache HTTP Server


 * muParser | A fast math parser library


 * perl-Finance-Quote | A Perl module that retrieves stock and mutual fund quotes


 * perl-HTML-TableExtract | A Perl module for extracting content in HTML tables


 * pfqueue | Queue manager for the Postfix/Exim Mail Transport Agents


 * postgresql-table_log | Log data changes in a PostgreSQL table


 * reciteword | Recite Word Easily


 * recode | Conversion between character sets and surfaces


 * rsnapshot | Local and remote filesystem snapshot utility


 * rzip | A large-file compression program


 * sec | SEC (simple event correlator)


 * slib | Platform independent library for scheme


 * svnkit | Pure Java Subversion client library


 * tcptraceroute | A traceroute implementation using TCP packets

EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 248

Number of binary packages: 460

There are 18 new Packages:


 * aqbanking | A library for online banking functions and financial data import/export


 * bash-completion | Programmable completion for Bash


 * ctapi-cyberjack | CT-API 1.1 driver for REINER SCT cyberjack USB chipcard reader


 * cvsplot | Collect statistics from CVS controlled files


 * fortune-mod | A program which will display a fortune


 * git | Git core and tools


 * gnucash-docs | Help files and documentation for the GnuCash personal finanace manager


 * gnucash | GnuCash is an application to keep track of your finances


 * gwenhywfar | A multi-platform helper library for other libraries


 * g-wrap | A tool for creating Scheme interfaces to C libraries


 * libofx | A library for supporting Open Financial Exchange (OFX)


 * mercurial | A fast, lightweight distributed source control management system


 * mksh | MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell


 * muParser | A fast math parser library


 * perl-Finance-Quote | A Perl module that retrieves stock and mutual fund quotes


 * perl-HTML-TableExtract | A Perl module for extracting content in HTML tables


 * pfqueue | Queue manager for the Postfix/Exim Mail Transport Agents


 * recode | Conversion between character sets and surfaces


 * rzip | A large-file compression program