EPEL report week 06/2008

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week06

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 06/2008 

== Most important happenings ==

 * Reminder: there is vacant seat in the EPEL Steering Committee we'd like to fill in the next meeting -- self nominations  welcome (on the EPEL list in public or in private by sending a mail to the current EPEL Steering Committee chairmen). We also will elect a new chairmen for the EPEL Steering Committee in the next EPEL SIG meeting.

== Mailing list ==

=== Noteworthy discussions ===

 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00023.html -- EPEL Meeting: Call for Topics

 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00050.html -- rough perl module status

 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00051.html -- epel task force?

 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00048.html -- rt3 for EPEL status update

== Meeting ==

=== Last weeks meeting ===

None scheduled.

=== Next Meeting ===

Wednesday, 20080213 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting. 

The topics scheduled for the next meeting as well as a rough status for all in-progress steering committee tasks can always be found in the wiki at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Schedule

== Stats ==



=== General ===



Number of EPEL Contributors: 175



We welcome 3 new contributors: corsepiu swarren walters



=== EPEL 5 ===



Number of source packages: 1084


Number of binary packages:  1999 



There are 25 new Packages:



 * ctorrent | BitTorrent Client written in C

 * d4x | Downloader for X that supports resuming and many other features

 * fxload | A helper program to download firmware into FX and FX2 EZ-USB devices

 * glusterfs | Cluster File System

 * gridengine | Grid Engine - Distributed Computing Management software

 * libxml++ | C++ wrapper for the libxml2 XML parser library

 * perl-Calendar-Simple | Perl extension to create simple calendars

 * perl-capitalization | No capitalization on method names

 * perl-ccom | Perl module for context-sensitive phonetic string replacement

 * perl-Class-MethodMaker | Perl module for creating generic object-oriented methods

 * perl-Class-ReturnValue | Class::ReturnValue Perl module

 * perl-DBIx-DBSchema | Database-independent schema objects

 * perl-DBIx-SearchBuilder | Encapsulate SQL queries and rows in simple perl objects

 * perl-Devel-StackTrace | Perl module implementing stack trace and stack trace frame objects

 * perl-ExtUtils-AutoInstall | Automatic install of dependencies via CPAN

 * perl-GnuPG-Interface | Perl interface to GnuPG

 * perl-Locale-Maketext-Lexicon | Extract translatable strings from source

 * perl-Net-eBay | Perl Interface to XML based eBay API

 * perl-Regexp-Common | Regexp::Common Perl module

 * perl-Sort-Versions | Perl module for sorting of revision-like numbers

 * perl-Text-Wrapper | Simple word wrapping perl module

 * perl-Tree-Simple | Tree::Simple Perl module

 * perl-Want | Perl module implementing a generalisation of wantarray

 * perl-XML-Filter-BufferText | Filter to put all characters() in one event

 * sshmenu | Application to organize SSH connection information in a menu



=== EPEL 4 ===



Number of source packages: 6549


Number of binary packages:  1191 



There are 5 new Packages:



 * glusterfs | Cluster File System

 * perl-ccom | Perl module for context-sensitive phonetic string replacement

 * perl-Class-MethodMaker | Perl module for creating generic object-oriented methods

 * perl-XML-Filter-BufferText | Filter to put all characters() in one event

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



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