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We have a packaging wishlist with a large number of packages, many of them obsolete. To find out software Fedora users were using and missing out in the repository, a survey was conducted in Fedora forum, mailing lists and some linux user groups. The result is provided here for convenience.

Wishlist

Software Description upstream url review request/ rpms / comments
ebox web based administration tool similar to webmin http://ebox-platform.com/ debian focused upstream but willing to cooperating with interested developers
CSSC GNU sccs replacement http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cssc/ actively maintained but stable. Package for slightly old version available at https://cryregarder.com/CSSC-1.1.1-2.src.rpm
remind reminder - alternative to evolution appointments http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind already in Fedora from Fedora Core 6
qtmess popups http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/qtmess.html small utility
wicd alternative to NetworkManager http://wicd.net/ Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury is working on this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511204
mbrowse a graphical SNMP MIB browser http://www.kill-9.org/mbrowse/
dbacl Powerful text classifier http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/ can be combined with procmail for spam filtering
chan capi http://www.chan-capi.org/ chan-capi allows the Asterisk to use ISDN CAPI interface [SRPM]
JMRI http://jmri.sourceforge.net/ OpenJDK needs to have java async communications interface. verify this
calender server caldev server http://calendarserver.org/
ferret Ferret is an interactive computer visualization for oceanographers http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/
analog www logfile analyser and summary report generator http://www.analog.cx/
tork Anonymity Manager http://tork.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php uses tor
cron-o-meter exercise calculator http://spaz.ca/cronometer/ java software
kxstich KXStitch is a program that lets you create cross stitch patterns and charts http://kxstitch.sourceforge.net/ KDE 3 application? no plans for KDE 4 port
freemind mind mapping http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page java based
arista video transcoder Rahul Sundaram has a review request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502477
transmageddon video transcoder Rahul Sundaram has a spec. waiting on a new release of pyobject2 to fix a bug
ROOT data analysis framework http://root.cern.ch/drupal/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542990
joomla content management system http://www.joomla.org/
gtapecalc desktop calculator with paper like output http://gtapecalc.sourceforge.net/ Rahul Sundaram is working on this
cmu common lisp lisp http://www.cons.org/cmucl/ is available for Fedora but only for 32-bit systems. code is not ported to 64-bit systems yet.
dans guardian proxy filter http://dansguardian.org/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500013
celtx media pre-production http://celtx.com/ Netscape License - acceptable
inform fiction http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html or http://gnome-inform7.sourceforge.net// former license is unclear
http://naughtysvn.tigris.org/ seve from fedoraforum has a rpm for this
nicotine filesharing http://www.nicotine-plus.org/ http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/pub/srpm/nicotine+-1.2.10-1.fc11.src.rpm + https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551027
shoooes ruby framework http://shoooes.net/
metasploit framework for creating security tools and exploits http://metasploit.com/framework/ 3-clause BSD license
rasmol molecular visualization software http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
gbuffy mailbox biff program http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/gbuffy/
JEP Java Math Expression Parser http://sourceforge.net/projects/jep/
argouml UML program http://argouml.tigris.org/
tinyuml UML program http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyuml
phplot charts http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplot/
linrad ham radio program http://www.nitehawk.com/sm5bsz/linuxdsp/linrad.htm
menumaker menu generator for small window managers like fluxbox http://sourceforge.net/projects/menumaker Gireesh Sreekantan is working on this. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2009-June/msg00002.html
eucalyptus Amazon EC2 compatible cloud infrastructure http://open.eucalyptus.com/
courier (imap and authlib) imap server http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/ mfleming has packages of both: http://www.thatfleminggent.com/rpm-packages
network stimulator ns-2 Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnam/ old rpms at http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2325036/com/ns-2.27-7.i386.rpm.html
qmail Mail transfer agent http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html Some suggested patches at http://netqmail.org/
djbdns DNS servers http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html Some suggested patches at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq/
daemontools tools for managing daemons http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html Some suggested patches at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq/
ucspi-tcp tools for running tcp services http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html Some suggested patches at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq/
ezmlm-idx mailing list software http://www.ezmlm.org/ Dependent on qmail. Based on http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html
Songbird Powerful media player, plugin extendible, uses XUL engine, similar to Amarok or iTunes but better ;) http://getsongbird.com/ RPMS exist: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Builds/Contributed_Builds
Navit GPS navigation system that can use OpenStreetMap maps http://www.navit-project.org/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485652
BackupNinja coordinate system backup by dropping a few simple configuration files into /etc/backup.d/. Most programs you might use for making backups don't have their own configuration file format. https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/show/backupninja/
Ossec Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. http://www.ossec.net/main/