EPEL report week 20, 2007

Sun May 20 12:10:28 UTC 2007

Hi all! Please find below this weeks EPEL report. It's also in the wiki at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week20

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= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 20/2007

== Most important happenings ==

 * mether (RahulSundaram) did some proof reading and cleanups in various
EPEL documents in the wiki; thx for your help mether! quaid
(KarstenWade) is also working on cleaning up the wiki.

 * "start signal" for Fedora contributors was send; see
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-May/msg00323.html
; EPEL got quite some new contributors and packages due to it

 *
[https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-May/msg00052.html
some discussions] about the proper update strategy for packages

== EPEL SIG Meeting ==

=== Attending ===

>From the Steering Committee:
 * dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
 * knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
 * mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
 * nirik (KevinFenzi)
 * quiad (KarstenWade)

Stahnma (MichaelStahnke) just missed the meeting.

Others that participated the meeting: Jeff_S, lmacken, smooge

=== Summary ===

 * 00:02 -- repotags/interaction with 3rd party repos -- owner: all

  * we wait for more discussion on the list (in particular for Fernando
Lopez-Lezcano before we decide how to move on)

  * knurd also want to discuss cooperation with CentOS/z00dax a bit,
which might have impact to this, too

 * 00:04 -- vacant seat in the steering committee

  * knurd mailed those five people thimm proposed; four answered; they
gave a "no" or a "only if you don't find somebody else"
 kind of answers; we wait another week and evaluate; maybe z00dax could
join the Steering Committee
 (even without being a contributor for EPEL, as he can't sign the CLA)

 * 00:06 -- finish the wiki docs and remove the warnings

  * mether and quaid did some cleanups; quaid will do some more over the
next few days; the plan is to remove the those "not official yet"
warning by next weeks meeting, but the EPEL repo itself stays unannounced

  * some discussion about bodhi with lmacken under this topic; see full
log for details

 * 00:14 -- Free discussion around EPEL

  * 00:15 nirik asked for comments regarding Xfce in EPEL, as Xfce will
soon get into CentOS Extras, too;  (see full log for details); knurd
mentions that we should have it in EPEL, even if CentOS Extras has it,
but we should try to find a way of cooperation so bugfixes find their
way into CentOS Extras, EPEL and Fedora

  * 00:20 nirik> "oh, how about mock configs?" dgilmore will make sure
they work

  * 00:25 smooge> "Will we be answering who the EPEL customers are
thought to be to distinguish it from other customer bases?"; we continue
on the list, but we maybe should write something up and put it in the wiki

  * 00:26 some discussions about RHEL subscriptions for testing; quiad
"I haven't gotten too far with that ... still looking for the right
person"; lots of people say that CentOS should be god enough for testing
normally; but having some testboxes with RHEL around might be helpful

=== Full meeting log ===

See https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-May/msg00088.html

== Stats ==

=== General ===

Number of EPEL Contributors 74

We welcome 13 new contributors: dcm_AT_acm.org, dev_AT_nigelj.com,
eric.tanguy_AT_univ-nantes.fr, fedora_AT_theholbrooks.org,
frank-buettner_AT_gmx.net, gajownik_AT_gmail.com, gilboad_AT_gmail.com,
jeff.gilchrist_AT_gmail.com, jwb_AT_redhat.com, lxtnow_AT_gmail.com,
mfleming+rpm_AT_enlartenment.com, ruben_AT_rubenkerkhof.com,
trond.danielsen_AT_gmail.com

=== EPEL 5 ===

Number of source packages: 274

Number of binary packages:  437

There are 49 new Packages:

 * autodir | Creates user directories on demand

 * cgdb | CGDB is a curses-based interface to the GNU Debugger (GDB)

 * DMitry | Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool

 * drgeo-doc | Html documentation for drgeo

 * drgeo | Interactive educational geometry software

 * freehdl | GPLed free VHDL

 * gperiodic | Program for browsing the periodic table

 * ike-scan | IKE protocol tool to discover, fingerprint and test IPsec
VPN servers

 * incron | Inotify cron system

 * ircd-hybrid | Internet Relay Chat Server

 * libiptcdata | IPTC tag library

 * libupnp | Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK

 * nbtscan | Tool to gather NetBIOS info from Windows networks

 * nrpe | Host/service/network monitoring agent for Nagios

 * ocaml | Objective Caml compiler and programming environment

 * pdns | A modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only
nameserver

 * pdns-recursor | Modern, advanced and high performance recursing/non
authoritative nameserver

 * perl-Apache-DBI | Persistent database connections with Apache/mod_perl

 * perl-Boulder | An API for hierarchical tag/value structures

 * perl-DBD-SQLite | Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver

 * perl-HTML-Table | Create HTML tables using simple interface

 * perl-IO-Multiplex | IO-Multiplex module for perl

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

 * perl-Net-IP-CMatch | Efficiently match IP addresses against IP ranges
with C

 * perl-Net-Patricia | Patricia Trie perl module for fast IP address lookups

 * perl-String-Approx | Perl extension for approximate matching (fuzzy
matching)

 * perl-XML-DOM | DOM extension to XML::Parser

 * perl-XML-RegExp | Regular expressions for XML tokens

 * php-channel-phpunit | Adds phpunit channel to PEAR

 * php-pear-DB | PEAR: Database Abstraction Layer

 * php-pear-Log | Abstracted logging facility for PHP

 * php-pecl-radius | Radius client library

 * php-pecl-xdebug | PECL package for debugging PHP scripts

 * Pound | Reverse proxy and load balancer

 * python-cheetah | Template engine and code-generator

 * python-docutils | A system for processing plaintext documentation

 * python-krbV | Python extension module for Kerberos 5

 * python-numarray | Python array manipulation and computational library

 * python-protocols | Open Protocols and Component Adaptation for Python

 * python-sqlite2 | DB-API 2.0 interface for SQLite 3.x

 * qucs | Circuit simulator

 * ruby-mysql | A Ruby interface to MySQL

 * scponly | Restricted shell for ssh based file services

 * specto | An desktop application that will watch configurable events

 * ushare | UPnP (TM) A/V Media Server

 * windowlab | Small and Simple Amiga-like Window Manager

 * yum-arch | Extract headers from rpm in a old yum repository

=== EPEL 4 ===

Number of source packages: 186

Number of binary packages:  348

There are 28 new Packages:

 * bugzilla | Bug tracking system

 * DMitry | Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool

 * drgeo-doc | Html documentation for drgeo

 * freehdl | GPLed free VHDL

 * gperiodic | Program for browsing the periodic table

 * ike-scan | IKE protocol tool to discover, fingerprint and test IPsec
VPN servers

 * ircd-hybrid | Internet Relay Chat Server

 * libupnp | Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK

 * nbtscan | Tool to gather NetBIOS info from Windows networks

 * ocaml | Objective Caml compiler and programming environment

 * pdns-recursor | Modern, advanced and high performance recursing/non
authoritative nameserver

 * perl-Apache-DBI | Persistent database connections with Apache/mod_perl

 * perl-Boulder | An API for hierarchical tag/value structures

 * perl-HTML-Table | Create HTML tables using simple interface

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

 * perl-Net-IP-CMatch | Efficiently match IP addresses against IP ranges
with C

 * perl-Net-Patricia | Patricia Trie perl module for fast IP address lookups

 * perl-String-Approx | Perl extension for approximate matching (fuzzy
matching)

 * perl-XML-DOM | DOM extension to XML::Parser

 * perl-XML-RegExp | Regular expressions for XML tokens

 * Pound | Reverse proxy and load balancer

 * python-krbV | Python extension module for Kerberos 5

 * python-numarray | Python array manipulation and computational library

 * qucs | Circuit simulator

 * ruby-mysql | A Ruby interface to MySQL

 * scponly | Restricted shell for ssh based file services

 * specto | An desktop application that will watch configurable events

 * windowlab | Small and Simple Amiga-like Window Manager