= 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 ---- ["CategoryEPELReports"] -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
