EPEL report week 05/2008

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week05

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 05/2008 

== Most important happenings ==

 * EPEL5 testing -> stable move happened (as always around the 1st each month). We have now 1011 different software packages (counting SRPMs) in the EPEL5 proper repositories for RHEL5/CentOS5.

 * Two things from https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00191.html

  * Stephen J Smoogen ([:StephenJSmoogen:smooge]) filled the vacant seat in the EPEL Steering Committee

  * Thorsten Leemhuis ([:ThorstenLeemhuis:knurd]) will step down as chair for the EPEL Steering Committee; he also plans to leave it, thus there is another seat to fill (see also https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00177.html ); self nominations welcome

== Mailing list ==

=== Noteworthy discussions ===

 * Xavier Bachelot is working on rt3 for EPEL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00174.html

 * Michael A. Peters want to see Gnome office in EPEL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-February/msg00000.html 

== Meeting ==

=== Last weeks meeting ===

Full log:

 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00193.html

Attendees:

 * [:ThorstenLeemhuis:knurd]
 * [:MattDomsch:mdomsch]
 * [:MikeMcGrath:mmcgrath]
 * [:KevinFenzi:nirik]
 * [:KarstenWade:quaid]
 * [:StephenJSmoogen:smooge]
 * [:MichaelStahnke:stahnma]

Summary:

 * broken dep reports go to the list  | mmcgrath ? | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc

  * the old script isn't running anymore

  * discussing how to move forward; the script from mschwendt looks better then the old one, as it mails the list as well (and likely runs faster); more discussions needed (see also: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00194.html )

 * next testing -> stable move | knurd | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/NextTestingStableMove

  * knurd prepared it prepared and improved the docs how to do the move

 * KojiAndBodhiForEpel | mmcgrath | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/KojiAndBodhiForEpel

  * no news from Jess_S or mmcgrath 

 * fill the steering committee  | all | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc

  * smooge (who self nominated on the list) was approved as steering committee member

  * knurd want's to leave:

   * thus we have a vacant seat again; self-nominations welcome; quaid: "I wonder if any of the RHTers who deal with RHX would be interested"

   * smooge and nirik are nominated as new chairmen; more nominations welcome; new chair will be elected in the next meeting

   * new meeting time can be discussed 

 * Free discussion around EPEL

  * smooge> | ok how are we doing for packages etc? how many are still in waiting to be branched etc? and wish list?

   * no exact numbers, but there are likely about 2500 - 3000 packages (counting SRPMS) in Fedora which are not in EPEL

  * smooge> | I think once we are pushing things regularly and getting more packages.. it would be a good idea to start recruuitiong more mirrors

   * more mirrors can't hurt; asking on that closed mirror list might be the best start to get more mirrors

=== Next Meeting ===

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

== Stats ==

=== General ===

Number of EPEL Contributors: 172

We welcome 4 new contributors: arnd sxw timn xavierb

=== EPEL 5 ===

Number of source packages: 1056

Number of binary packages:  1960 

There are 35 new Packages:

 * coriander | Control a 1394 digital camera interactively
 * crack | Password cracker
 * dtc | Device Tree Compiler
 * innotop | A MySQL and InnoDB monitor program
 * libdc1394 | 1394-based digital camera control library
 * livecd-tools | Tools for building live CD's
 * mash | Koji buildsystem to yum repository converter
 * mod_line_edit | A general-puropse filter for text documents
 * perl-Algorithm-CheckDigits | Perl extension to generate and test check digits
 * perl-Class-Inner | A perlish implementation of Java like inner classes
 * perl-Crypt-CBC | Encrypt Data with Cipher Block Chaining Mode
 * perl-HTML-PrettyPrinter | Generate nice HTML files from HTML syntax trees
 * perl-HTML-Scrubber | Library for scrubbing/sanitizing html
 * perl-IPC-ShareLite | Light-weight interface to shared memory
 * perl-Linux-Pid | Get the native PID and the PPID on Linux
 * perl-Math-BaseCnv | Fast functions to CoNVert between number Bases
 * perl-NetAddr-IP | Manages IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and subnets
 * perl-PDL | The Perl Data Language
 * perl-TermReadKey | A perl module for simple terminal control
 * perl-Test-Unit | The PerlUnit testing framework
 * perl-Text-Format | Various subroutines to format text
 * perl-User | API for locating user information regardless of OS
 * perl-XML-Handler-YAWriter | Yet another Perl SAX XML Writer
 * perl-XML-Merge | Flexibly merge XML documents
 * perl-XML-Tidy | Tidy indenting of XML documents
 * perl-XML-Xerces | Perl API to Xerces XML parser
 * python-elixir | A declarative mapper for SQLAlchemy
 * python-libgmail-docs | Documents and examples for python-libgmail
 * python-libgmail | Library to provide access to Gmail via Python
 * remctl | Client/server for Kerberos-authenticated command execution
 * rtpproxy | A symmetric RTP proxy
 * sagator | SAGATOR - antivir/antispam gateway for smtp server
 * silkscreen-fonts | Silkscreen four member type family
 * up-imapproxy | University of Pittsburgh IMAP Proxy
 * xorg-x11-drv-openchrome | Xorg X11 openchrome video driver

=== EPEL 4 ===

Number of source packages: 644

Number of binary packages:  1180 

There are 25 new Packages:

 * innotop | A MySQL and InnoDB monitor program
 * perl-Algorithm-CheckDigits | Perl extension to generate and test check digits
 * perl-Authen-Krb5 | Krb5 Perl module
 * perl-Class-Inner | A perlish implementation of Java like inner classes
 * perl-Crypt-CBC | Encrypt Data with Cipher Block Chaining Mode
 * perl-DateTime-Precise | Perform common time and date operations with additional GPS operations
 * perl-HTML-Scrubber | Library for scrubbing/sanitizing html
 * perl-IPC-ShareLite | Light-weight interface to shared memory
 * perl-Linux-Pid | Get the native PID and the PPID on Linux
 * perl-Math-BaseCnv | Fast functions to CoNVert between number Bases
 * perl-NetAddr-IP | Manages IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and subnets
 * perl-TermReadKey | A perl module for simple terminal control
 * perl-Test-Unit | The PerlUnit testing framework
 * perl-Text-Format | Various subroutines to format text
 * perl-User | API for locating user information regardless of OS
 * perl-XML-Handler-YAWriter | Yet another Perl SAX XML Writer
 * perl-XML-Merge | Flexibly merge XML documents
 * perl-XML-Tidy | Tidy indenting of XML documents
 * perl-XML-Xerces | Perl API to Xerces XML parser
 * python-libgmail | Library to provide access to Gmail via Python
 * remctl | Client/server for Kerberos-authenticated command execution
 * rtpproxy | A symmetric RTP proxy
 * sagator | SAGATOR - antivir/antispam gateway for smtp server
 * silkscreen-fonts | Silkscreen four member type family
 * up-imapproxy | University of Pittsburgh IMAP Proxy

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