WIKI WISHLIST in ASCII format :)

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Sun Apr 6 17:49:21 UTC 2008


There is probably an easier way of doing this.. but after a bunch of
emacs editing.. here is the Wishlist as of 20080406. I wanted to send
this to the devel list to remind people of requests and to start a
discussion on what we can do to shorten this in the future.


                               Package Wish List

   The following lists contain software people would like to see
   packaged up and maintained for EPEL.


An EPEL maintainer is meant to be someone who is able to patch and code
the source code to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5

Packages that lack a EPEL maintainer

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Package Name               Brief Description     Status
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                           Intel video BIOS hack
915resolution              to support certain    Owners were mailed 071210
                           resolutions
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abiword                    The AbiWord word      Owners were mailed 071210
                           processor
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                           802.11 (wireless)
aircrack-ng                sniffer and           Owners were mailed 071210
                           WEP/WPA-PSK key
                           cracker
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                           Wireless LAN (WLAN)
airsnort                   tool which recovers   Owners were mailed 071210
                           encryption keys
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alsa-tools                 Specialist tools for  Fedora maintainer needs
			   ALSA			 EPEL maintainer.
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anjuta                     A very capable IDE    owner mailed 080215
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asterisk                   The Open Source PBX   being worked on
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ardour                     Multichannel Digital  requires scons first
                           Audio Workstation
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                           A GTK2 based media
audacious                  player similar to     Owners were mailed 071210
                           xmms
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awstats                    web statistics        It's in EPEL 5, need
						 EPEL 4
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                           easily import,
banshee                    manage, and play      Owners were mailed 071210
                           selections from your
                           music collection
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basket                     Notes taker for KDE   Fedora maintainer needs
						 EPEL maintainer.
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                           A distributed         Fedora maintainer needs
bazaar                     revision control      EPEL maintainer.
                           system
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beagle                     The Beagle Search     Owners were mailed 071210
                           Infrastructure
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                           BitTorrent
bittorrent                 swarming network file Owners were mailed 071210
                           transfer tool
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blam                       An RSS/RDF feed       Fedora maintainer needs
                           reader                EPEL maintainer.
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                           3D modeling,
blender                    animation, rendering  Owners were mailed 071210
                           and post-production
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                           GTK2 web development
bluefish                   application for       Owners were mailed 080104
                           experienced users
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bochs                      Portable x86 PC       Fedora maintainer needs
                           emulator              EPEL maintainer.
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                           Tool to locally check Fedora maintainer needs
chkrootkit                 for signs of a        EPEL maintainer.
                           rootkit
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                           CinePaint is a
cinepaint                  tool for manipulating Owners were mailed 071210
                           images
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claws-mail                 The extended version  Owners were mailed 071210
                           of Sylpheed
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                           Secure concurrent
clusterssh                 multi-server terminal Owners were mailed 071210
                           control
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conduit                    A synchronization     Owners were mailed 071210
                           solution for GNOME
                           Downloader for X that
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d4x                        supports resuming and Owners were mailed 071210
                           many other features
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dbh                        Disk based hash       Owners were mailed 071210
                           library
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dbus-sharp                 C# bindings for D-Bus Owners were mailed 071210
                           Fault tolerant "dd"
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dd_rescue                  utility for rescuing  Owners were mailed 071210
                           data from bad media
                           A Gnome applet to
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deskbar-applet             allow easy access to  Owners were mailed 071210
                           various search
                           engines
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                           A digital camera
digikam                    accessing & photo     Owners were mailed 071210
                           management
                           application
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dirac                      Dirac is an open      Owners were mailed 071210
                           source video codec
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dvdauthor                  Command line DVD      Fedora maintainer needs
                           authoring tool        EPEL maintainer.
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                           Manipulate files in
e2tools                    unmounted ext2/ext3   Owners were mailed 071210
                           filesystems
                           Tag editor for mp3,
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easytag                    ogg, flac and other   Owners were mailed 071210
                           music files
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enchant                    A spell Checking      Owners were mailed 071211
                           Library
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enemies-of-carlotta        A simple mailing list Owners were mailed 071210
                           manager
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                           GNOME web browser
epiphany                   based on the Mozilla  Owners were mailed 071224
                           rendering engine
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epylog                     New logs analyzer and Owners were mailed 071210
                           parser
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evolution-sharp            Evolution Data Server Owners were mailed 071210
                           Mono Bindings
                           Application library
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exo                        for the Xfce desktop  Requires XFCE
                           environment
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                           Finds duplicate files Fedora maintainer needs
fdupes                     in a given set of     EPEL maintainer.
                           directories
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firestarter                Firewall tool for     Owners were mailed 071210
                           GNOME
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FlightGear                 The FlightGear        Owners were mailed 071210
                           Flight Simulator      needs SimGear
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fprobe-ulog                NetFlow probe         Owners were mailed 080308
                           The Freeciv
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freeciv                    multi-player strategy Owners were mailed 071210
                           game
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                           The FreeCol           Fedora maintainer needs
freecol                    multi-player strategy EPEL maintainer.
                           game
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                           Free Software (GPL)   Feodra maintainer needs
freenx                     Implementation of the EPEL maintainer.
                           NX Server
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frozen-bubble              Frozen Bubble arcade  Owners were mailed 071210
                           game
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                           FSlint - a utility to
fslint                     find and clean "lint" Owners were mailed 071210
                           on a filesystem
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f-spot                     Photo management      Owners were mailed 071210
                           application
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                           Easy-to-use database
glom                       designer and user     Owners were mailed 071210
                           interface
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gmyth                      MythTV remote access  Owners were mailed 071210
                           libraries
                           Linux/Unix tool suite
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gnokii                     for various mobile    Fedora maintainer needs
                           phones                EPEL maintainer.
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gnomebaker                 GNOME CD/DVD burner   Owners were mailed 071210
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                           A nice and fast file  Fedora maintainer needs
gnome-commander            manager for the GNOME EPEL maintainer.
                           desktop
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gnubiff                    A mail notification   Owners were mailed 071210
                           program
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gnumeric                   Spreadsheet program   Fedora maintainer needs
                           for GNOME             EPEL maintainer.
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gobby                      Free collaborative    Owners were mailed 071210
                           editor
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gossip                     GNOME Jabber Client   Owners were mailed 071210
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gtk-sharp2                 GTK+ and GNOME        Owners were mailed 071210
                           bindings for Mono
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gtweakui                   Extra configuration   Owners were mailed 071210
                           dialogs for GNOME
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hardinfo                   System Profiler and   Owners were mailed 071210
                           Benchmark
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                           Heartbeat subsystem   To be added later.
heartbeat                  for High-Availability nirik
                           Linux
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hexedit                    A hexadecimal file    Owners were mailed 071210
                           viewer and editor
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                           The common Horde
horde                      Framework for all     Owners were mailed 071210
                           Horde applications
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hping3                     TCP/IP stack auditing Owners were mailed 071210
                           and much more
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htop                       Interactive process   Owners were mailed 071210
                           viewer
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                           Library for           Fedora maintainer needs
id3lib                     manipulating ID3v1    EPEL maintainer.
                           and ID3v2 tags
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                           The Internet
imp                        Messaging Program:    Owners were mailed 071210
                           webmail access to
                           IMAP/POP3 accounts
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                           The Horde web-based
ingo                       Email Filter Rules    Owners were mailed 071210
                           Manager
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                           Firmware for IntelÂ(R)
ipw2100-firmware           PRO/Wireless 2100     Owners were mailed 071210
                           network adaptors
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                           Firmware for IntelÂ(R)
ipw2200-firmware           PRO/Wireless 2200     Owners were mailed 071210
                           network adaptors
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                           Firmware for IntelÂ(R)
iwl3945-firmware           PRO/Wireless 3945     Owners were mailed 071210
                           A/B/G network
                           adaptors
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                           Firmware for IntelÂ(R)
iwl4965-firmware           PRO/Wireless 4965     Owners were mailed 071210
                           A/G/N network
                           adaptors
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                           Fast, compact editor  Fedora maintainer needs
jed                        based on the S-Lang   EPEL maintainer.
                           screen library
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                           JavaScript
js                         interpreter and       Owners were mailed 071210
                           libraries
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                           A Java implementation
jython                     of the Python         Owners were mailed 071210
                           language
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                           Back up your data in
kbackup                    a simple, user        Owners were mailed 071210
                           friendly way
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kdemultimedia-extras       Extra applications    Owners were mailed 071210
                           from kdemultimedia
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                           Compare + merge 2 or
kdiff3                     3 files or            Owners were mailed 071210
                           directories
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kio_p7zip                  Kio-slave for 7Zip    Owners were mailed 071210
                           archives
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                           KPowersave is the KDE
kpowersave                 frontend for          Owners were mailed 071210
                           powermanagement
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ksensors                   KDE frontend to       Fedora maintainer needs
                           lm_sensors            EPEL maintainer.
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ladspa                     LADSPA SDK, example   Owners were mailed 071210
                           plug-ins and tools
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leafnode                   Leaf site offline     Owners were mailed 071210
                           NNTP server
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                           A software library    Fedora maintainer needs
libbinio                   for binary I/O        EPEL maintainer.
                           classes in C++
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                           Library for Colour
libcaca                    AsCii Art, text       Owners were mailed 071210
                           mode graphics
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                           Library (C API) for   Fedora maintainer needs
libcddb                    accessing CDDB        EPEL maintainer
                           servers
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libebml                    Extensible Binary     Fedora maintainer needs
                           Meta Language library EPEL maintainer.
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                           Abstract asynchronous
libevent                   event notification    Bug #248055 opened 071207
                           library
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                           Open audio/video      Fedora maintainer needs
libmatroska                container format      EPEL maintainer.
                           library
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                           Library for working
libmp4v2                   with files using the  Owners were mailed 071210
                           mp4 container format
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                           Sample rate           Fedora maintainer needs
libsamplerate              conversion library    EPEL maintainer
                           for audio data
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libshout                   icecast source        Owners were mailed 071210
                           streaming library
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                           Commodore 64 music    Fedora maintainer needs
libsidplay                 player and SID chip   EPEL maintainer
                           emulator library
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                           Library for reading
libsndfile                 and writing sound     Owners were mailed 071210
                           files
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libtar                     Tar file manipulation Fedora maintainer needs
                           API                   EPEL maintainer
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libtimidity                MIDI to WAVE          Fedora maintainer needs
                           converter library     EPEL maintainer
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liferea                    An RSS/RDF feed       Owners were mailed 071210
                           reader
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                           Phone anywhere in the
linphone                   whole world by using  Owners were mailed 071210
                           the Internet
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                           The Linux Infrared    Fedora maintainer needs
lirc                       Remote Control        EPEL maintainer
                           package
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livecd-tools               Tools for building    Owners were mailed 071210
                           live CD's
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                           Small application for
lsdvd                      listing the contents  Owners were mailed 071210
                           of DVDs
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                           A software project
maven2                     management and        Owner was mailed 080130
                           comprehension tool
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                           Displays e-mail
mboxgrep                   messages matching a   Owners were mailed 071210
                           pattern
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mcs                        A configuration file  Owners were mailed 071210
                           abstraction library
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                           Access data stored in Fedora maintainer needs
mdbtools                   Microsoft Access      EPEL maintainer
                           databases
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mediawiki                  A wiki engine         Fedora maintainer needs
						 EPEL maintainer
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meld                       Visual diff and merge Owners were mailed 071210
                           tool
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mmv                        Move/copy/append/link Fedora maintainer needs
                           multiple files        EPEL maintainer.
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multiget                   An easy-to-use GUI    Owners were mailed 071223
                           file downloader
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                           Network-wide graphing nirik
munin                      framework
                           (grapher/gatherer)
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mxml                       Minimal XML library
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nessus-core                Network vulnerability Owners were mailed 071210
                           scanner
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                           NumLockX turns on
numlockx                   NumLock after         Owners were mailed 071210
                           starting X
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pan                        A GNOME/GTK+ news     Owners were mailed 071210
                           reader for X
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perl-IO-Prompt             Interactively prompt  Owners were mailed 080113
                           for user input
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                           Perl module to
perl-Locale-Maketext-Fuzzy Maketext from already Owners were mailed 071216;
                           interpolated strings
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                           Perl interface to the
perl-MD5                   MD5 Message-Digest    Owners were mailed 071210
                           Algorithm
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                           Conversions to and    Fedora maintainer needs
perl-Unicode-MapUTF8       from arbitrary        EPEL maintainer
                           character sets and
                           UTF8
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                           Toolkit of Perl
                           modules useful in
perl-bioperl               building
                           bioinformatics
                           solutions in Perl
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                           APC caches and
php-pecl-apc               optimizes PHP         Owners were mailed 071210
                           intermediate code
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                           A PHP extension that
php-pecl-Fileinfo          wraps the libmagic    Owners were mailed 071216
                           library
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php-Smarty                 Template/Presentation Owners were mailed 071210
                           Framework for PHP
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pidgin-libnotify           Libnotify Pidgin      Fedora maintainer needs
                           plugin                EPEL maintainer
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                           Set of portable       Fedora maintainer needs
plib                       libraries especially  EPEL maintainer
                           useful for games
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ppracer                    3D racing game        Owners were mailed 071210
                           featuring Tux
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psi                        Jabber client based   Fedora maintainer needs
                           on Qt                 EPEL maintainer
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pure-ftpd                  Lightweight, fast and Fedora maintainer needs
                           secure FTP server     EPEL maintainer
                           Python bindings for
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python-enchant             Enchant spellchecking Owners were mailed 071210
                           library
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                           Web application
python-nevow               construction kit      Owners were mailed 071210
                           written in Python
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                           An asynchronous
python-twisted-core        networking framework  Owners were mailed 071210
                           written in Python
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                           Twisted web server,
python-twisted-web         programmable in       Owners were mailed 071210
                           Python
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PyXML                      XML libraries for     Owners were mailed 080104
                           python.
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                           Graphical quality
qa-assistant               assurance report      Owners were mailed 071210
                           generator
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qemu                       QEMU is a FAST!       Owners were mailed 071210
                           processor emulator
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                           Quake 3 Arena         Fedora maintainer needs
quake3                     tournament 3D shooter EPEL maintainer
                           game
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rekall                     A KDE database        needs scons
                           front-end application
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resapplet                  Resolution Switching  Owners were mailed 071210
                           Applet
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roundup                    Issue tracking system Owners were mailed 080309
                           Enhanced system
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rsyslog                    logging and kernel    Owners were mailed 071210
                           message trapping
                           daemons
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rt3                        Request tracker 3     Fedora maintainer needs
						 EPEL maintainer
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                           Implements the
ruby-activerecord          ActiveRecord          Owners were mailed 071210
                           pattern for ORM
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                           Utility classes and
ruby-activesupport         extension to Ruby's   Owners were mailed 071210
                           standard library
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                           An Open Source
scons                      software construction Owners were mailed 071211
                           tool
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                           Graphic primitives,
SDL_gfx                    rotozoomer, framerate Owners were mailed 071210
                           control and image
                           filters
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Simgear                    Simulation library    needs freealut-devel,
                           components            openal-devel, plib-devel
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                           Audio Processing      Fedora maintainer needs
soundtouch                 library for changing  EPEL maintainer.
                           Tempo, Pitch and
                           Playback Rates
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                           Filter, redirector    Owners were mailed 071210
squidGuard                 and access controller
                           plugin for squid
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supertux                   Jump'n run like game  Owners were mailed 071210
                           similar to Mario Bros
                           Kids 3D go-kart
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supertuxkart               racing game featuring Fedora maintainer needs
                           Tux                   EPEL maintainer.
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                           GTK+ based,           Fedora maintainer needs
sylpheed                   lightweight, and fast EPEL maintainer.
                           email client
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texlive                    Binaries for the TeX  Owners were mailed 071216;
                           formatting system
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Thunar                     Thunar File Manager   needs XFCE
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                           Tomboy is a desktop   Fedora maintainer needs
tomboy                     note-taking           EPEL maintainer
                           application for Linux
                           and Unix
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                           Turn-based strategy
wesnoth                    game with a fantasy   Owners were mailed 071210
                           theme
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                           A utility for
wifi-radar                 managing WiFi         Owners were mailed 071210
                           profiles
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wildmidi                   WildMidi              Fedora maintainer needs
                           softsynth midi player EPEL maintainer
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                           C++ library to
wxsvg                      create, manipulate    Owners were mailed 071210
                           and render SVG files
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                           GUI toolkit for the
wxPython                   Python programming    Owners were mailed 080104
                           language
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xchat-gnome                GNOME front-end to    Owners were mailed 071216;
                           xchat
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xemacs                     Different version of  Fedora maintainer needs
                           Emacs                 EPEL maintainer
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xfsprogs                   xfs filesystem        Requires kernel modules
                           utilities             to RH kernels
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xosd                       On-screen display     ORPHANED
                           library for X
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xscreensaver               X screen saver and    Requires kernel modules
                           locker                to RH kernels
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yasm                       Complete rewrite of   Owners were mailed 071210
                           the NASM assembler
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-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"




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