EPEL Weekly notes 2008-03-10 -> 2008-03-16

[Stephen John Smoogen]

= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 09/2008 2008-03-09 -> 2008-03-15

== Most important happenings ==

 * Held meeting at scheduled time.
 * RHEL-5.2 beta announced. Please test :).

== Mailing list ==

=== Noteworthy discussions ===

 * RHEL 5.2 beta is out. Some EPEL packages will need to be removed as
they are in 5.2

== Meeting ==

=== Last weeks meeting ===

Full Logs:
 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-March/msg00060.html

Attendees:

 * <stickster>
 * <smooge>
 * <quaid>
 * <nirik>
 * <mmcgrath>
 * <knurd>
 * <jwb>
 * <jmbuser>
 * <f13>

Thanks to everyone for attending.


Summary:
 * fill the steering committee; one self-nomination: Xavier Lamien|
all | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc
   * need to send another email to the list to get nominations.
 * Status Reports | all | Build System, Packages in waiting etc
   * build system working okish
   * no problems that were reported.
 * make broken dep reports work and send them to the list  | mmcgrath
| http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc
   * more of a status report. reports are working and look good.
 * EL-4/EL-5 pushes | knurd
   * pushes going ahead as planned. Working on getting it covered by
more than one person.
 * RHEL-5.2beta
   * several packages are going to be replaced with EPEL packages.
   * EPEL will not have a seperate fork for each EL-5.y.z branch...
unless there is a demand and volunteers for it.
 * KojiAndBodhiForEpel | mmcgrath, _blah_ |
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/KojiAndBodhiForEpel
   * discussion covered why we didn't have it for new people on the conversation
   * discussion of why CentOS is not used.
     * third party vendors want items built with RHEL binaries.. but
they aren't showing up on list
     * EPEL being used in RHxx training as built against RHEL binaries
 * more mirrors | smooge | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc
   * a request was made to the mirror list and several mirrors jumped
on board. We should have a larger coverage for users.
 * marketing: Logo, Posters, etc?| smooge |
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc
   * a request was made on the web-page for artwork. No takers yet for art.



=== Next Meeting ===

Wednesday, 20080326 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:176

We welcome  1 new contributors: ianweller

=== EPEL 5 ===

Number of source packages: 1143

Number of binary packages: 1845

There are 1 new Packages:

 * maradns | Authoritative and recursive DNS server made with security in mind

=== EPEL 4 ===

Number of source packages: 671

Number of binary packages: 1089

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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"