Archive:EPEL/Reports/Week33

Weekly EPEL Summary

Week 33/2007

Most important happenings

• reminder: now that EPEL is officially announced all new and updates EPEL packages go straight to EPEL-testing and *not* to the stable repo. EPEL-testing packages will (if everything is sane) get moved to stable repo in parallel with a quarterly RHEL update. If you have a security update that needs to go to EPEL-stable build normally and contact ThorstenLeemhuis

There are some discussion to adjust that scheme (sync more often, push new packages directly or after a small warning period to stable, ...); see the list for details at https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00083.html

• some discussion on the list to do much more on the mailiglist instead of in the meetings -- see https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00071.html

• two RFC's which might be approved soon got posted to the list --

• Job description: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00082.html

• communication plan: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00081.html

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EPEL SIG Meeting

Attending

From the Steering Committee:

• knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
• mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
• Jeff_S (Jeff Sheltren)
• quaid (KarstenWade)
• nirik (KevinFenzi)
• stahnma (MichaelStahnke)

Missing from the Steering Committee:

• dgilmore (DennisGilmore) (missed it by a few minutes)

Summary

• new push scripts for pushing to testing, adjust mock configs to use testing -- dgilmore

• finished ; thx for your work dgilmore

• we need to do more stuff with the scripts to be able to push to stable easily; knurd will take a look

• branch for EPEL if Fedora maintainer does not react

• finished; dgilmore enhanced the text to fix something knurd complained about. The last sentence reads now: "If the Fedora maintainer later decides to participate in EPEL, then the Fedora maintainer will become co-maintainer for EPEL. (Of course co-maintainership can be extended to Fedora)"

• yum for EPEL4 -- Jeff_S

• "How to do it" also got finished :) -- we take the CentOS srpms as base, ship them with a lower release to do no harm to CentOS and remove the yum.conf, as yum without a RHEL4-repo can not be used to install stuff from EPEL, but is of value for stuff like yum-utils or mock

• EPEL announcement happened -- are we satisfied with how everything worked out?

• was discussed in the past meetings -- we'll remove it from the schedule, move on and discuss stuff as needed

• RHX and EPEL -- quaid

• quiad: "nothing new ; but I haven't asked in a while; forgot it could be on the agenda "

• communication plan for enterprise customers/ISVs/IHVs -- stahnma, quaid

• will get send to the list for final discussions

• Generic Job Description -- quaid

• will get send to the list for final discussions

• ExcludeArch TrackerBugs for EPEL -- notting/knurd

• knurd doesn't find the time for it atm; any volunteers?

• FESCo mandate/how to move on with SIG and SteeringCommittee

• current mandate for the EPEL SIG and its Steering Committee is limited until end of September; do we want to move on with the current scheme ? or do we want to elect a sterring committee?

• some people wondered if elections really make sense

• we could recommend to FESCo an extension of the mandate for e.g. 6 months

• stahnma> "I think right now growth of the repo and user-base is where we should putting effort not into politics "

• quaid> "we seem to have a manageable group without adding or subtracting "

• mmcgrath> "I guess a specific goal would be good. I mean the obvious goal is there but do we also want to aggressively add more packages? Add more packagers? Add more documentation? Marketing? "

• "more packages" is still a important goal

• stahnma> "allow for hostile takeover of maintainane :) "

• knurd> "maybe we need a sponsor-way for EPEL-only contributors that want to maintain existing packages "

• we stopped there and will continue this topic on the list and in the next meeting

• Free discussion around EPEL

• mmcgrath> "just wanted to say I think the EPEL community is pretty healthy right now, lots of people and packages being built and we're still very young. "

• Jeff_S_> "I'm happy to try to do most communication on the list and then just finalize things in meetings -- that way we can speed through these faster :) "

• stahnma> "I liked the speed of today's meeting "

Full Log

https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00115.html

Stats

General

Number of EPEL Contributors -- now that the pgkdb is in production it's for now not easily determinable (AFAIK)

EPEL 5

Number of source packages: 590

Number of binary packages: 1146

There are 79 new Packages (might include some old packages that were moved to testing right before the EPEL announcement):

• arj | Archiver for .arj files

• audio-entropyd | Generate entropy from audio output

• bcfg2 | Configuration management system

• bugzilla | Bug tracking system

• cabextract | Utility for extracting cabinet (.cab) archives

• chmlib | Library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files

• evolution-bogofilter | A plugin for bogofilter support in evolution

• freeze | freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities

• gdal | GIS file format library

• geos | GEOS is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite

• gnome-screensaver-frogs | GNOME Screensaver Slideshow of Frogs

• google-perftools | Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools

• guile-cairo | The Cairo graphics library for Guile Scheme

• guile-lib | A repository of useful code written in Guile Scheme

• JSDoc | Produces javadoc-style documentation from JavaScript sourcefiles

• lasi | C++ library for creating Postscript documents

• libdap | The C++ DAP2 library from OPeNDAP

• libgeotiff | GeoTIFF format library

• limph | A PHP5-compatible network host/service poller with web interface

• lzop | Real-time file compressor

• mapserver | Environment for building spatially-enabled internet applications

• mfstools | Utilities for TiVo drive upgrades

• moodle | A Course Management System

• netgo | Networking profile manager

• nikto | Web server scanner

• nomarch | GPLed Arc de-archiver

• ogdi | Open Geographic Datastore Interface

• oneko | Cat chases the cursor

• pbzip2 | Parallel implementation of bzip2

• Perlbal | Reverse-proxy load balancer and webserver

• perl-Convert-TNEF | Perl module to read TNEF files

• perl-Convert-UUlib | Perl interface to the uulib library

• perl-Danga-Socket | Event loop and event-driven async socket base class

• perl-Device-SerialPort | Linux/POSIX emulation of Win32::SerialPort functions

• perl-ExtUtils-F77 | Simple interface to F77 libs

• perl-Gearman-Client-Async | Asynchronous Client for the Gearman distributed job system

• perl-Gearman | Distributed job system

• perl-Gearman-Server | Function call "router" and load balancer

• perl-Image-ExifTool | Utility for reading and writing image meta info

• perl-IO-AIO | Asynchronous Input/Output

• perl-libwhisker2 | Perl module geared specificly for HTTP testing

• perl-Mail-SPF-Query | Query Sender Policy Framework

• perl-MogileFS-Utils | Utilities for MogileFS

• perl-Net-CIDR-Lite | Net::CIDR::Lite Perl module

• perl-Net-Pcap | Interface to pcap(3) LBL packet capture library

• perl-Razor-Agent | Use a Razor catalogue server to filter spam messages

• perl-Sys-Syscall | Access system calls that Perl doesn't normally provide access to

• perl-Test-Base | Data Driven Testing Framework

• perltidy | Tool for indenting and reformatting Perl scripts

• php-pear-PHP-CodeSniffer | PHP coding standards enforcement tool

• physfs | Library to provide abstract access to various archives

• plplot | Library of functions for making scientific plots

• postgresql-pgpool | Pgpool is a connection pooling/replication server for PostgreSQL

• proftpd | Flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP server

• proj | Cartographic projection software (PROJ.4)

• pv | A tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline

• pychart | Python library for generating chart images

• python-Coherence | Python framework to participate in digital living networks

• python-iniparse | Python Module for Accessing and Modifying Configuration Data in INI files

• python-lxml | ElementTree-like Python bindings for libxml2 and libxslt

• python-pygments | A syntax highlighting engine written in Python

• pyxdg | Python library to access freedesktop.org standards

• qhull | General dimension convex hull programs

• qucs | Circuit simulator

• SDL_mixer | Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library

• ser2net | Proxy that allows tcp connections to serial ports

• stripesnoop | Magnetic Stripe Reader

• svgalib | Low-level fullscreen SVGA graphics library

• svnmailer | Tool to post subversion repository commit information

• tcpxtract | Tool for extracting files from network traffic

• tidy | Utility to clean up and pretty print HTML/XHTML/XML

• translate-toolkit | A collection of tools to assist software localization

• udunits | A library for manipulating units of physical quantities

• ustr | String library, very low memory overhead, simple to import

• vpnc | IPSec VPN client compatible with Cisco equipment

• xerces-c | Validating XML Parser

• xkeycaps | Graphical front end to xmodmap

• xsupplicant | Open Source Implementation of IEEE 802.1x

• zabbix | Open-source monitoring solution for your IT infrastructure

EPEL 4

Number of source packages: 377

Number of binary packages: 778

There are 62 new Packages (might include some old packages that were moved to testing right before the EPEL announcement):

• arj | Archiver for .arj files

• audio-entropyd | Generate entropy from audio output

• bcfg2 | Configuration management system

• bugzilla | Bug tracking system

• chmlib | Library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files

• cobbler | Boot server configurator

• freeze | freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities

• geos | GEOS is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite

• gnome-screensaver-frogs | GNOME Screensaver Slideshow of Frogs

• google-perftools | Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools

• JSDoc | Produces javadoc-style documentation from JavaScript sourcefiles

• libdap | The C++ DAP2 library from OPeNDAP

• libgeotiff | GeoTIFF format library

• limph | A PHP5-compatible network host/service poller with web interface

• lzop | Real-time file compressor

• mfstools | Utilities for TiVo drive upgrades

• mimedefang | E-Mail filtering framework using Sendmail's Milter interface

• mock | Builds packages inside chroots

• mod_security | Security module for the Apache HTTP Server

• moodle | A Course Management System

• netgo | Networking profile manager

• nikto | Web server scanner

• nomarch | GPLed Arc de-archiver

• oneko | Cat chases the cursor

• pbzip2 | Parallel implementation of bzip2

• perl-Convert-TNEF | Perl module to read TNEF files

• perl-Convert-UUlib | Perl interface to the uulib library

• perl-Danga-Socket | Event loop and event-driven async socket base class

• perl-Device-SerialPort | Linux/POSIX emulation of Win32::SerialPort functions

• perl-ExtUtils-F77 | Simple interface to F77 libs

• perl-Image-ExifTool | Utility for reading and writing image meta info

• perl-IO-AIO | Asynchronous Input/Output

• perl-libwhisker2 | Perl module geared specificly for HTTP testing

• perl-Mail-SPF-Query | Query Sender Policy Framework

• perl-Net-CIDR-Lite | Net::CIDR::Lite Perl module

• perl-Net-Server | Extensible, general Perl server engine

• perl-Razor-Agent | Use a Razor catalogue server to filter spam messages

• perl-SOAP-Lite | Client and server side SOAP implementation

• perl-Sys-Syscall | Access system calls that Perl doesn't normally provide access to

• physfs | Library to provide abstract access to various archives

• postgresql-dbi-link | Partial implementation of the SQL/MED portion of the SQL:2003 specification

• postgresql-pgpoolAdmin | PgpoolAdmin - web-based pgpool administration

• postgresql-pgpool | Pgpool is a connection pooling/replication server for PostgreSQL

• proj | Cartographic projection software (PROJ.4)

• pychart | Python library for generating chart images

• python-Coherence | Python framework to participate in digital living networks

• python-lxml | ElementTree-like Python bindings for libxml2 and libxslt

• pyxdg | Python library to access freedesktop.org standards

• qucs | Circuit simulator

• SDL_mixer | Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library

• ser2net | Proxy that allows tcp connections to serial ports

• specto | An desktop application that will watch configurable events

• sqlgrey | Postfix grey-listing policy service

• stripesnoop | Magnetic Stripe Reader

• svgalib | Low-level fullscreen SVGA graphics library

• trac | Enhanced wiki and issue tracking system

• trac-webadmin | Web interface for administration of Trac

• udunits | A library for manipulating units of physical quantities

• xerces-c | Validating XML Parser

• xkeycaps | Graphical front end to xmodmap

• xsupplicant | Open Source Implementation of IEEE 802.1x

• zabbix | Open-source monitoring solution for your IT infrastructure

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