EPEL report week 33 2007
Thorsten Leemhuis
fedora at leemhuis.info
Sun Aug 19 12:26:47 UTC 2007
= Weekly EPEL Summary =
Week 33/2007
== Most important happenings ==
* reminder: now that EPEL is officially announced all new and updates
EPEL packages go straight to EPEL-testing and *not* to the stable repo.
EPEL-testing packages will (if everything is sane) get moved to stable
repo in parallel with a quarterly RHEL update. If you have a security
update that needs to go to EPEL-stable build normally and contact
ThorstenLeemhuis
There are some discussion to adjust that scheme (sync more often, push
new packages directly or after a small warning period to stable, ...);
see the list for details at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00083.html
* some discussion on the list to do much more on the mailiglist instead
of in the meetings -- see
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00071.html
* two RFC's which might be approved soon got posted to the list --
* Job description:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00082.html
* communication plan:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00081.html
if you don't like something speak up now
From:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week33
== EPEL SIG Meeting ==
=== Attending ===
>From the Steering Committee:
* knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
* mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
* Jeff_S (Jeff Sheltren)
* quaid (KarstenWade)
* nirik (KevinFenzi)
* stahnma (MichaelStahnke)
Missing from the Steering Committee:
* dgilmore (DennisGilmore) (missed it by a few minutes)
=== Summary ===
* new push scripts for pushing to testing, adjust mock configs to use
testing -- dgilmore
* finished ; thx for your work dgilmore
* we need to do more stuff with the scripts to be able to push to
stable easily; knurd will take a look
* branch for EPEL if Fedora maintainer does not react
* finished; dgilmore enhanced the text to fix something knurd
complained about. The last sentence reads now: "If the Fedora maintainer
later decides to participate in EPEL, then the Fedora maintainer will
become co-maintainer for EPEL. (Of course co-maintainership can be
extended to Fedora)"
* yum for EPEL4 -- Jeff_S
* "How to do it" also got finished :) -- we take the CentOS srpms as
base, ship them with a lower release to do no harm to CentOS and remove
the yum.conf, as yum without a RHEL4-repo can not be used to install
stuff from EPEL, but is of value for stuff like yum-utils or mock
* EPEL announcement happened -- are we satisfied with how everything
worked out?
* was discussed in the past meetings -- we'll remove it from the
schedule, move on and discuss stuff as needed
* RHX and EPEL -- quaid
* quiad: "nothing new ; but I haven't asked in a while; forgot it
could be on the agenda "
* communication plan for enterprise customers/ISVs/IHVs -- stahnma, quaid
* will get send to the list for final discussions
* Generic Job Description -- quaid
* will get send to the list for final discussions
* ExcludeArch TrackerBugs for EPEL -- notting/knurd
* knurd doesn't find the time for it atm; any volunteers?
* FESCo mandate/how to move on with SIG and SteeringCommittee
* current mandate for the EPEL SIG and its Steering Committee is
limited until end of September; do we want to move on with the current
scheme ? or do we want to elect a sterring committee?
* some people wondered if elections really make sense
* we could recommend to FESCo an extension of the mandate for e.g. 6
months
* stahnma> "I think right now growth of the repo and user-base is
where we should putting effort not into politics "
* quaid> "we seem to have a manageable group without adding or
subtracting "
* mmcgrath> "I guess a specific goal would be good. I mean the
obvious goal is there but do we also want to aggressively add more
packages? Add more packagers? Add more documentation? Marketing? "
* "more packages" is still a important goal
* stahnma> "allow for hostile takeover of maintainane :) "
* knurd> "maybe we need a sponsor-way for EPEL-only contributors that
want to maintain existing packages "
* we stopped there and will continue this topic on the list and in the
next meeting
* Free discussion around EPEL
* mmcgrath> "just wanted to say I think the EPEL community is pretty
healthy right now, lots of people and packages being built and we're
still very young. "
* Jeff_S_> "I'm happy to try to do most communication on the list and
then just finalize things in meetings -- that way we can speed through
these faster :) "
* stahnma> "I liked the speed of today's meeting "
=== Full Log ===
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00115.html
== Stats ==
=== General ===
Number of EPEL Contributors -- now that the pgkdb is in production it's
for now not easily determinable (AFAIK)
=== EPEL 5 ===
Number of source packages: 590
Number of binary packages: 1146
There are 79 new Packages (might include some old packages that were
moved to testing right before the EPEL announcement):
* arj | Archiver for .arj files
* audio-entropyd | Generate entropy from audio output
* bcfg2 | Configuration management system
* bugzilla | Bug tracking system
* cabextract | Utility for extracting cabinet (.cab) archives
* chmlib | Library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files
* evolution-bogofilter | A plugin for bogofilter support in evolution
* freeze | freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities
* gdal | GIS file format library
* geos | GEOS is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite
* gnome-screensaver-frogs | GNOME Screensaver Slideshow of Frogs
* google-perftools | Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools
* guile-cairo | The Cairo graphics library for Guile Scheme
* guile-lib | A repository of useful code written in Guile Scheme
* JSDoc | Produces javadoc-style documentation from JavaScript sourcefiles
* lasi | C++ library for creating Postscript documents
* libdap | The C++ DAP2 library from OPeNDAP
* libgeotiff | GeoTIFF format library
* limph | A PHP5-compatible network host/service poller with web interface
* lzop | Real-time file compressor
* mapserver | Environment for building spatially-enabled internet
applications
* mfstools | Utilities for TiVo drive upgrades
* moodle | A Course Management System
* netgo | Networking profile manager
* nikto | Web server scanner
* nomarch | GPLed Arc de-archiver
* ogdi | Open Geographic Datastore Interface
* oneko | Cat chases the cursor
* pbzip2 | Parallel implementation of bzip2
* Perlbal | Reverse-proxy load balancer and webserver
* perl-Convert-TNEF | Perl module to read TNEF files
* perl-Convert-UUlib | Perl interface to the uulib library
* perl-Danga-Socket | Event loop and event-driven async socket base class
* perl-Device-SerialPort | Linux/POSIX emulation of Win32::SerialPort
functions
* perl-ExtUtils-F77 | Simple interface to F77 libs
* perl-Gearman-Client-Async | Asynchronous Client for the Gearman
distributed job system
* perl-Gearman | Distributed job system
* perl-Gearman-Server | Function call "router" and load balancer
* perl-Image-ExifTool | Utility for reading and writing image meta info
* perl-IO-AIO | Asynchronous Input/Output
* perl-libwhisker2 | Perl module geared specificly for HTTP testing
* perl-Mail-SPF-Query | Query Sender Policy Framework
* perl-MogileFS-Utils | Utilities for MogileFS
* perl-Net-CIDR-Lite | Net::CIDR::Lite Perl module
* perl-Net-Pcap | Interface to pcap(3) LBL packet capture library
* perl-Razor-Agent | Use a Razor catalogue server to filter spam messages
* perl-Sys-Syscall | Access system calls that Perl doesn't normally
provide access to
* perl-Test-Base | Data Driven Testing Framework
* perltidy | Tool for indenting and reformatting Perl scripts
* php-pear-PHP-CodeSniffer | PHP coding standards enforcement tool
* physfs | Library to provide abstract access to various archives
* plplot | Library of functions for making scientific plots
* postgresql-pgpool | Pgpool is a connection pooling/replication server
for PostgreSQL
* proftpd | Flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP server
* proj | Cartographic projection software (PROJ.4)
* pv | A tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline
* pychart | Python library for generating chart images
* python-Coherence | Python framework to participate in digital living
networks
* python-iniparse | Python Module for Accessing and Modifying
Configuration Data in INI files
* python-lxml | ElementTree-like Python bindings for libxml2 and libxslt
* python-pygments | A syntax highlighting engine written in Python
* pyxdg | Python library to access freedesktop.org standards
* qhull | General dimension convex hull programs
* qucs | Circuit simulator
* SDL_mixer | Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library
* ser2net | Proxy that allows tcp connections to serial ports
* stripesnoop | Magnetic Stripe Reader
* svgalib | Low-level fullscreen SVGA graphics library
* svnmailer | Tool to post subversion repository commit information
* tcpxtract | Tool for extracting files from network traffic
* tidy | Utility to clean up and pretty print HTML/XHTML/XML
* translate-toolkit | A collection of tools to assist software
localization
* udunits | A library for manipulating units of physical quantities
* ustr | String library, very low memory overhead, simple to import
* vpnc | IPSec VPN client compatible with Cisco equipment
* xerces-c | Validating XML Parser
* xkeycaps | Graphical front end to xmodmap
* xsupplicant | Open Source Implementation of IEEE 802.1x
* zabbix | Open-source monitoring solution for your IT infrastructure
=== EPEL 4 ===
Number of source packages: 377
Number of binary packages: 778
There are 62 new Packages (might include some old packages that were
moved to testing right before the EPEL announcement):
* arj | Archiver for .arj files
* audio-entropyd | Generate entropy from audio output
* bcfg2 | Configuration management system
* bugzilla | Bug tracking system
* chmlib | Library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files
* cobbler | Boot server configurator
* freeze | freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities
* geos | GEOS is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite
* gnome-screensaver-frogs | GNOME Screensaver Slideshow of Frogs
* google-perftools | Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools
* JSDoc | Produces javadoc-style documentation from JavaScript sourcefiles
* libdap | The C++ DAP2 library from OPeNDAP
* libgeotiff | GeoTIFF format library
* limph | A PHP5-compatible network host/service poller with web interface
* lzop | Real-time file compressor
* mfstools | Utilities for TiVo drive upgrades
* mimedefang | E-Mail filtering framework using Sendmail's Milter
interface
* mock | Builds packages inside chroots
* mod_security | Security module for the Apache HTTP Server
* moodle | A Course Management System
* netgo | Networking profile manager
* nikto | Web server scanner
* nomarch | GPLed Arc de-archiver
* oneko | Cat chases the cursor
* pbzip2 | Parallel implementation of bzip2
* perl-Convert-TNEF | Perl module to read TNEF files
* perl-Convert-UUlib | Perl interface to the uulib library
* perl-Danga-Socket | Event loop and event-driven async socket base class
* perl-Device-SerialPort | Linux/POSIX emulation of Win32::SerialPort
functions
* perl-ExtUtils-F77 | Simple interface to F77 libs
* perl-Image-ExifTool | Utility for reading and writing image meta info
* perl-IO-AIO | Asynchronous Input/Output
* perl-libwhisker2 | Perl module geared specificly for HTTP testing
* perl-Mail-SPF-Query | Query Sender Policy Framework
* perl-Net-CIDR-Lite | Net::CIDR::Lite Perl module
* perl-Net-Server | Extensible, general Perl server engine
* perl-Razor-Agent | Use a Razor catalogue server to filter spam messages
* perl-SOAP-Lite | Client and server side SOAP implementation
* perl-Sys-Syscall | Access system calls that Perl doesn't normally
provide access to
* physfs | Library to provide abstract access to various archives
* postgresql-dbi-link | Partial implementation of the SQL/MED portion
of the SQL:2003 specification
* postgresql-pgpoolAdmin | PgpoolAdmin - web-based pgpool administration
* postgresql-pgpool | Pgpool is a connection pooling/replication server
for PostgreSQL
* proj | Cartographic projection software (PROJ.4)
* pychart | Python library for generating chart images
* python-Coherence | Python framework to participate in digital living
networks
* python-lxml | ElementTree-like Python bindings for libxml2 and libxslt
* pyxdg | Python library to access freedesktop.org standards
* qucs | Circuit simulator
* SDL_mixer | Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library
* ser2net | Proxy that allows tcp connections to serial ports
* specto | An desktop application that will watch configurable events
* sqlgrey | Postfix grey-listing policy service
* stripesnoop | Magnetic Stripe Reader
* svgalib | Low-level fullscreen SVGA graphics library
* trac | Enhanced wiki and issue tracking system
* trac-webadmin | Web interface for administration of Trac
* udunits | A library for manipulating units of physical quantities
* xerces-c | Validating XML Parser
* xkeycaps | Graphical front end to xmodmap
* xsupplicant | Open Source Implementation of IEEE 802.1x
* zabbix | Open-source monitoring solution for your IT infrastructure
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