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Weekly EPEL Summary
Week 35/2007
Most important happenings
- we will do alternate meeting times now; 23:00 one week, 17:00 UTC the other; next meeting at 20070905 at 23:00 UTC
- FESCo extended the mandate for the EPEL Steering Committee
- the plan is to push new packages (not updates ones) more often to stable in the future; likely every four weeks for now -- no exact timeframe can be given yet, as we need to see how complicate it is (the process needs to be prepared manually by someone in a local test-repo first, to check if all deps are still satisfied before packages can actually be moved)
EPEL SIG Meeting
Attending
From the Steering Committee:
- dgilmore (DennisGilmore)
- knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis)
- mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath)
- Jeff_S (Jeff Sheltren)
- nirik (KevinFenzi)
- stahnma (MichaelStahnke)
Missing from the Steering Committee:
- quaid (KarstenWade)
Summary
- easier pushing from testing to stable
- nirik can push for EPEL as well (in addition to dgilmore, knurd and mmcgrath)
- mschwendt did some improvements to the scripts (many thx mschwendt for your work!); they should make it easy to move something from testing to stable ; the final patch to the scripts-in-production was not applied yet ; knurd talked to dgilmore about it (he knows the scripts way better than I do) and wants to take a look (on his todo list after fixing plague ); if he doesn't find the time knurd will take the risk over the next few days as do it himself
- we need to be careful that a update doesn't depend on something else in testing.
- new meeting schedule/scheme
- alternate meetings are the new black; find the details in https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-September/msg00005.html and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Meetings
- MetaData for all Packages available to contributors. -- stahnma
- I've been trying to get a better definition of the problem ; I understand the issue, but use-cases etc would be nice ; we need a clear stance on EPEL not stepping on RHN provided material and a way to hopefully enforce it
- might be a good start to at least have a package list of RHEL4 and RHEL5 online somewhere
- mandate for the Steering Committee
- nirik will ask FESCo (which happened in between)
- push quicker to stable
- see section "most important happenings"
- Free discussion around EPEL
- Quotes: "I want a pony" and "the weather sucks "
- stahnma> "I am trying to get some more #rhel and #rhn people involved here in EPEL "; are there any other channels/mailing lists where we should ask interested people to join us in the meetings?
- stahnma> "can anyone write for RH magazine? " stahnma will evaluate and would happily write it; but maybe mether or someone else is preparing one already?
- nirik is working on clamav; comments on his post appreciated; "and solving the problems with the packaging and compatibility with dag/rpmforge would be good"; on the other hand it's good if stuff is similar in Fedora and EPEL
Full Log
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-September/msg00006.html
Stats
General
Number of EPEL Contributors: unknown -- looks like we'll have it next again next week!
EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 628
Number of binary packages: 1196
There are 29 new Packages:
- amtterm | Serial-over-lan (sol) client for Intel AMT
- dfu-programmer | A Device Firmware Update based USB programmer for Atmel chips
- dstat | Versatile resource statistics tool
- erlang | General-purpose programming language and runtime environment
- iftop | Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface
- jhead | Tool for displaying EXIF data embedded in JPEG images
- perl-CGI-Simple | Simple totally OO CGI interface that is CGI.pm compliant
- perl-CGI-Untaint | Process CGI input parameters
- perl-Class-Trigger | Mixin to add / call inheritable triggers
- perl-Class-Whitehole | Base class to treat unhandled method calls as errors
- perl-Date-Simple | Simple date object for perl
- perl-Exporter-Lite | Lightweight exporting of variables
- perl-OLE-Storage_Lite | Simple Class for OLE document interface
- perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel | Write formatted text and numbers to a cross-platform Excel binary file
- perl-SQL-Abstract | Generate SQL from Perl data structures
- perl-Tie-DBI | Tie hashes to DBI relational databases
- perl-UNIVERSAL-exports | Lightweight, universal exporting of variables
- perl-UNIVERSAL-moniker | Real world naming for classes
- pexpect | Pure Python Expect-like module
- php-extras | Additional PHP modules from the standard PHP distribution
- php-pecl-memcache | Extension to work with the Memcached caching daemon
- python-boto | A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
- rootsh | Shell wrapper for auditing
- shapelib | API in "C" for Shapefile handling
- xbase | XBase compatible database library and tools
- xbiso | ISO extraction utility for xdvdfs images
- xbsql | A SQL wrapper for xbase
- xclip | Command line clipboard grabber
- yum-cron | Files needed to run yum updates as a cron job
EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 413
Number of binary packages: 827
There are 30 new Packages:
- createrepo | Creates a common metadata repository
- gmrun | Lightweight "Run program" dialog box with search history and tab completion
- iftop | Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface
- pdns | A modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver
- perl-CGI-Simple | Simple totally OO CGI interface that is CGI.pm compliant
- perl-CGI-Untaint | Process CGI input parameters
- perl-Class-Trigger | Mixin to add / call inheritable triggers
- perl-Class-Whitehole | Base class to treat unhandled method calls as errors
- perl-Date-Simple | Simple date object for perl
- perl-Exporter-Lite | Lightweight exporting of variables
- perl-OLE-Storage_Lite | Simple Class for OLE document interface
- perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel | Write formatted text and numbers to a cross-platform Excel binary file
- perl-SQL-Abstract | Generate SQL from Perl data structures
- perl-String-CRC32 | Perl interface for cyclic redundancy check generation
- perl-Tie-DBI | Tie hashes to DBI relational databases
- perl-UNIVERSAL-exports | Lightweight, universal exporting of variables
- perl-UNIVERSAL-moniker | Real world naming for classes
- pexpect | Pure Python Expect-like module
- php-idn | PHP API for GNU LibIDN
- python-boto | A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
- python-elementtree | Fast XML parser and writer
- python-urlgrabber | A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber
- rootsh | Shell wrapper for auditing
- shapelib | API in "C" for Shapefile handling
- tidy | Utility to clean up and pretty print HTML/XHTML/XML
- xbase | XBase compatible database library and tools
- xbiso | ISO extraction utility for xdvdfs images
- xbsql | A SQL wrapper for xbase
- xclip | Command line clipboard grabber
- yum | RPM installer/updater
