EPEL report week 47 2007

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week47 = Weekly EPEL Summary = Week 47/2007 == Most important happenings == * reminder: the EPEL meetings (and of course the mailing lists) are open to everyone; if you want to help EPEL by changing or improving something come join us, your voice will be heard; and if it comes to votings you opinion and your vote will count as well, even if you are not in the EPEL Steering Committee or in the SIG! * [:KarstenWade:quaid] writes in https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-November/msg00111.html : {{{ We've done a fair job of attracting Fedora packagers to EPEL. Now we need to get all the other audiences to get involved, as package users, packagers, testers, and general community members: * General end-users * Academia and scientific users * Software and hardware vendors * General corporate users I'll take the lead on this task, but boy do I need help and ideas. Can we cook up a list of requirements or goals, so we can take some ideas to f-marketing-l to discuss publicity etc.? [...] }}} == Mailing list == === Noteworthy discussions === * Lot's of discussion about shipping mock 0.8.9 for EPEL-5 in https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-November/msg00078.html, which in between resulted in it being shipped == Meeting == === Next Meeting === 20071205 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting. (ten days from now) === Last weeks meeting === Log: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-November/msg00121.html Attendees: * [:DennisGilmore:dgilmore] * [:ThorstenLeemhuis:knurd] * [:MikeMcGrath:mmcgrath] * [:KevinFenzi:nirik] * [:KarstenWade:quaid] * [:ManuelWolfshant:wolfy] Summary: * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/NextTestingStableMove testing stable move for EL4? -- nirik * nirik> | I pulled a local mirror of the epel4 stuff, but I haven't tested yet... ; sorry for delaying. ;( * nirik will try to do it over the weekend; knurd will help if needed * knurd> | I wondered if we normally should send a mail to the maintainer of the effected packages? then they get a chance to say "don't push foo, because it has serious bugs" ; nirik> | perhaps a list of what would be pushed on the list and then a day or two for someone to say they don't want to push? * We'll consider something like the above for the future; but for this EPEL4 push we just continue * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/RhelMetaData -- stahnma * skipped; feedback from people what they want sill wanted (mailing list or directly on the task page in the wiki, which is linked from the schedule) * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc -- RHEL 5.1 (and 4.6) for the builders? * we'll do it once centos 4.6/5.1 is out?; dgilmore will prepare it over the next few days. Many thanks for your help dgilmore! * Free discussion around EPEL * nirik> | FYI, I _still_ don't have my clamav rpm ready, but again I hope to work on it this weekend/holiday * knurd> | are we happy with the state of EPEL? mmcgrath> | we've been using it in Fedora since before it was official :) its been great. nirik> | yeah, I think so... lots of nice new branches in the last weeks... all the bugzilla perl rpms... knurd> | I'd had hoped more people would become active with EPEL administrativa ; e.g. more people in the meetings * quaid> | I don't mind remaining involved, but I'm feeling a bit like dead wood :) ... my skillz were most at use early on in putting people and processes together ; so, what I was wondering is if there is a need to refresh my seat with someone new? nirik> | well, we don't have many people at all interested it seems like right now... quaid> | nirik: I don't mind keeping the body count up and keeping an eye on things; just don't want to be in the way of someone else ; nirik> | if you are interested in stepping down, perhaps you could work on firing up more interested people to attend meetings first. ;) == Stats == === General === Number of EPEL Contributors: 141 === EPEL 5 === Number of source packages: 819 Number of binary packages: 1516 There are 16 new Packages: * debootstrap | Bootstrap a basic Debian GNU/Linux system * ikarus | An incremental optimizing compiler for R6RS Scheme * perl-DateTime | Date and time objects * perl-DateTime-Format-Mail | Convert between DateTime and RFC2822/822 formats * perl-DateTime-Format-W3CDTF | Parse and format W3CDTF datetime strings * perl-Email-Abstract | Unified interface to mail representations * perl-Email-Date | Find and format date headers * perl-Email-Reply | Reply to an email message * perl-Email-Send | Module for sending email * perl-Mail-Box | Manage a mailbox, a folder with messages * perl-Template-Toolkit | Template processing system * perl-Test-Output | Utilities to test STDOUT and STDERR messages * perl-Text-Autoformat | Automatic text wrapping and reformatting * perl-XML-RSS | Perl module for managing RDF Site Summary (RSS) files * qiv | Quick Image Viewer * smstools | Tools to send and receive short messages through GSM modems or mobile phones === EPEL 4 === Number of source packages: 447 Number of binary packages: 895 There are 3 new Packages: * debootstrap | Bootstrap a basic Debian GNU/Linux system * qiv | Quick Image Viewer * smstools | Tools to send and receive short messages through GSM modems or mobile phones ---- ["CategoryEPELReports"]