EPEL report week 51 2007

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 51/2007 

== Most important happenings ==

 * [https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00101.html EPEL4 builders now use RHEL 4.6]

 * alpine now in EPEL

== Mailing list ==

=== Noteworthy discussions ===

 * [https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-December/msg00130.html perl modules in EPEL]

== Meeting ==

=== Next Meeting ===

20080201 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.

=== Last weeks meeting ===

Attendees: 
 
 * [:MikeMcGrath:mmcgrath] 
 * [:KevinFenzi:nirik] 
 * [:MichaelStahnke:stahnma] 

Topics:

 * RHEL MetaData | stahnma | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/RhelMetaData 

  * stahnma> I have been working on a something that spits out requires/provides/filelisting etc for each rpm . I am actually surprised repoview doesn't have something like that 

  * stuff will be hosted on  fedorapeople

  * No ETA; stahnma> "I was hoping to have it done today, but that didn't happen ; maybe next coupel weeks.  Holidays screw up schedules "

 *  KojiAndBodhiForEpel 

  * mmcgrath> the wheels are in motion to try to get funding for an intern but nothing concrete yet. 

 * RHEL 5.1 (and 4.6) for the builders 

  * thats done now, right? 

  * how to do it next time still under discussion 

  * nirik> | another issue related here: updates for builders?  would it be hard to get them to pull updates into the buildroot ? 

   * mmcgrath> | If we decide thats what we want to do we'll also have to figure out a way to do it.  Right now going from RHEL5 -> 5.1 involved me downloading the DVD's, copying RPM's over and running createrepo. 

   * more on the list

 * update http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies 

  * nirik> | I updated the page... if everyone could look and correct/add/modify, feel free. 

 * Free discussion

  * anything planned on EPEL at FUDcon?  Maybe a EPEL meeting at fudcon... perhaps a 'Fedora maintainers intro to EPEL' ? 

  * stahnma> | also, it's great to see so many new packages in EPEL lately 

  * nirik> | I am still working on getting munin in... need some more perl deps. Will probibly start on Xfce over the holidays too. 

== Stats == 
 
=== General === 
 
Number of EPEL Contributors: 161 
 
We welcome 6 new contributors: bellet bojan deji jbowes key pwouters 
 
=== EPEL 5 === 
 
Number of source packages: 923 
 
Number of binary packages:  1702  
 
There are 31 new Packages: 
 
 * acpitool | Command line ACPI client 
 * alpine | UW Alpine mail user agent 
 * asa | Convert Fortran carriage control characters 
 * BibTool | A Tool for manipulating BibTeX data bases 
 * bitmap | Bitmap editor and converter utilities for the X Window System 
 * cppunit | C++ unit testing framework 
 * docbook2X | Convert docbook into man and Texinfo 
 * elektra | A key/value pair database to store software configurations 
 * esmtp | User configurable relay-only Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) 
 * gparted | Gnome Partition Editor 
 * mISDN | Userspace part of Modular ISDN stack 
 * monotone | A free, distributed version control system 
 * nautilus-actions | Nautilus extension for customizing the context menu 
 * netbsd-iscsi | User-space implementation of iSCSI target from NetBSD project 
 * perl-HTTP-Server-Simple | Very simple standalone HTTP daemon 
 * perl-IO-Tty | Perl interface to pseudo tty's 
 * perl-IPC-Run | Perl module for interacting with child processes 
 * perl-Locale-Maketext-Fuzzy | Maketext from already interpolated strings 
 * perl-Log-Dispatch | Dispatches messages to one or more outputs 
 * perl-Mail-Sender | Module for sending mails with attachments through an SMTP server 
 * perl-Mail-Sendmail | Simple platform independent mailer for Perl 
 * perl-Module-ScanDeps | Recursively scan Perl code for dependencies 
 * perl-PAR-Dist | Toolkit for creating and manipulating Perl PAR distributions 
 * perl-Text-Aspell | Perl interface to the GNU Aspell library 
 * pyflakes | A Lint-like tool for Python 
 * python-ctypes | Advanced Foreign Function Interface for Python 
 * python-openid | Python OpenID libraries 
 * python-pycurl | A Python interface to libcurl 
 * trousers | Implementation of the TCG's Software Stack v1.2 Specification 
 * viewvc | Browser interface for CVS and SVN version control repositories 
 * xbae | Motif matrix, caption and text input widgets 
 
=== EPEL 4 === 
 
Number of source packages: 534 
 
Number of binary packages:  1035  
 
There are 29 new Packages: 
 
 * acpitool | Command line ACPI client 
 * alpine | UW Alpine mail user agent 
 * asa | Convert Fortran carriage control characters 
 * BibTool | A Tool for manipulating BibTeX data bases 
 * cernlib | General purpose CERN library 
 * cppunit | C++ unit testing framework 
 * docbook2X | Convert docbook into man and Texinfo 
 * esmtp | User configurable relay-only Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) 
 * ganglia | Ganglia Distributed Monitoring System 
 * libesmtp | SMTP client library 
 * pcapdiff | Compares packet captures, detects forged, dropped or mangled packets 
 * perl-Archive-Tar | A module for Perl manipulation of .tar files 
 * perl-Archive-Zip | Perl library for accessing Zip archives 
 * perl-Compress-Zlib | Interface to zlib compression library 
 * perl-IO-String | Emulate file interface for in-core strings 
 * perl-IO-Tty | Perl interface to pseudo tty's 
 * perl-IO-Zlib | IO:: style interface to Compress::Zlib 
 * perl-IPC-Run | Perl module for interacting with child processes 
 * perl-Locale-Maketext-Fuzzy | Maketext from already interpolated strings 
 * perl-Mail-Sender | Module for sending mails with attachments through an SMTP server 
 * perl-Mail-Sendmail | Simple platform independent mailer for Perl 
 * perl-Module-Build | Perl module for building and installing Perl modules 
 * perl-PAR-Dist | Toolkit for creating and manipulating Perl PAR distributions 
 * pyflakes | A Lint-like tool for Python 
 * python-genshi | Toolkit for stream-based generation of output for the web 
 * python-openid | Python OpenID libraries 
 * python-protocols | Open Protocols and Component Adaptation for Python 
 * viewvc | Browser interface for CVS and SVN version control repositories 
 * xbae | Motif matrix, caption and text input widgets 
 
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