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Weekly EPEL Summary
Week 27/2007
Most important happenings
- Policy for "Branching for EPEL if Fedora maintainer does not react" was approved
- target date for for official EPEL announcement: July 19; we need to fix all broken deps beforehand (and make sure any new ones hit the repo)
EPEL SIG Meeting
Attending
From the Steering Committee:
- dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
- Jeff_S (Jeff Sheltren)
- knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
- mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
- nirik (KevinFenzi)
- quiad (KarstenWade)
- stahnma (MichaelStahnke)
Others that participated the meeting:
Summary
- EPEL Meeting – broken deps – nirik:
- Jeff_S will be responsible for this topic; nirik will try to help
- we need to poke people; they likely don't even know that there are broken dep
- running a repoclosure before push would be ideal, but not easy; we should get that with bodhi sooner or later, so we don't look deeper into this issue
- spam o magic script (broken deps) – mmcgrath
- mmcgrath is looking at it; he committed to have it ready by the next meeting
- Move epel dirs on servers down below stable – knurd
- last week decided, this week reverted.
- Branch for EPEL if Fedora maintainer does not react – knurd, _blah_
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00016.html got approved, knurd added it to the wiki. We likely need to adjust a small detail; see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-July/msg00332.html
- signers group – dgilmore
- dgilmore and mmcgrath can push and sign; that is considered enough for now
- finish the wiki docs and remove the warnings by end of may – quaid
- round about ready; quaid has some changes pending, but nothing major
- warning on the top EPEL-page in the wiki will get removed shortly before announcement
- EPEL announcement -- quaid
- early announce draft to epel-devel-l
soon; shortly after that early announce to f-maintainers
- followed by first draft of real announcement to e-d-l
- finally announce on Jul 19
- RHX and EPEL – quaid
- seems some people still don't really know that RHX actually is
- general agreement to "we should try to work it so that Free and open source software in RHX is available in EPEL with community support"; quaid> "I doubt we'll have any problem with that idea
. I think the RHX folks feel the same; they have no need to duplicate what we do for no reason, and lose the gain of the community . It's going to be a few weeks until we can get a formal set of guidelines between the two groups . Mainly it's about the messaging, making sure that it's easy to know the difference between a package from EPEL and one from RHX . I made the point that ISVs can control that best if the ... actually own the package in Fedora :) "
Full Log
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00019.html
Stats
General
Number of EPEL Contributors 107
We welcome 6 new contributors: gemi_AT_bluewin.ch, ghenry_AT_suretecsystems.com, mdehaan_AT_redhat.com, mszpak_AT_wp.pl, rich_AT_phekda.gotadsl.co.uk, rpm_AT_greysector.net
EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 439
Number of binary packages: 799
There are 34 new Packages:
- alsamixergui | GUI mixer for ALSA sound devices
- artwiz-aleczapka-fonts | Set of (improved) artwiz fonts
- blacs | Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subprograms
- c-ares | A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations
- cobbler | Boot server configurator
- cronolog | Web log rotation program for Apache
- dar | Software for making/restoring incremental CD/DVD backups
- dx | Open source version of IBM's Visualization Data Explorer
- eclipse-subclipse | Subversion Eclipse plugin
- evolution-bogofilter | A plugin for bogofilter support in evolution
- ftplib | Library of FTP routines
- gxemul | Instruction-level machine emulator
- itk | Object oriented extensions to Tk
- jam | Program construction tool, similar to make
- JSDoc | Produces javadoc-style documentation from JavaScript sourcefiles
- koan | Network provisioning tool for Xen and Bare Metal Machines
- lapack | The LAPACK libraries for numerical linear algebra.
- libcgi | CGI easy as C
- perl-Lingua-EN-Inflect | Convert singular to plural, select "a" or "an"
- perl-Lingua-EN-Inflect-Number | Force number of words to singular or plural
- perl-version | Perl extension for Version Objects
- php-pear-Phlickr | Phlickr is a PHP5 based api kit used with the Flickr API
- php-spyc | A simple php yaml class
- planet | Flexible RDF/RSS/Atom feed aggregator
- python-isprelink | Python module to determine if a file has been prelinked
- R | A language for data analysis and graphics
- R-RScaLAPACK | An interface to perform parallel computation on linear algebra problems using ScaLAPACK
- scalapack | A subset of LAPACK routines redesigned for heterogenous computing
- uread | Utilities for unformatted fortran files
EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 271
Number of binary packages: 560
There are 19 new Packages:
- alsamixergui | GUI mixer for ALSA sound devices
- artwiz-aleczapka-fonts | Set of (improved) artwiz fonts
- c-ares | A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations
- cobbler | Boot server configurator
- ftplib | Library of FTP routines
- gxemul | Instruction-level machine emulator
- jam | Program construction tool, similar to make
- JSDoc | Produces javadoc-style documentation from JavaScript sourcefiles
- koan | Network provisioning tool for Xen and Bare Metal Machines
- libcgi | CGI easy as C
- perl-Lingua-EN-Inflect | Convert singular to plural, select "a" or "an"
- perl-Lingua-EN-Inflect-Number | Force number of words to singular or plural
- perl-version | Perl extension for Version Objects
- php-spyc | A simple php yaml class
- python-isprelink | Python module to determine if a file has been prelinked
- R | A language for data analysis and graphics
- uread | Utilities for unformatted fortran files