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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 --
- communication plan: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-August/msg00081.html
if you don't like something speak up now
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
