EPEL report week 46 2007

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week46 = Weekly EPEL Summary = Week 46/2007 == Most important happenings == * [:RobMyers: Rob Myers] (_blah_) is working towards getting all bugzilla deps into EPEL, which resulted in a huge number of new perl packages in EPEL5-testing during the past week. Thx for your great work Rob, it's much appreciated! == Mailing list == === Noteworthy discussions === Nothing earth-shaking. == Meeting == === Next Meeting === 20071107 at '''18:00 UTC''' in #fedora-meeting. Please note that it's 18:00 UTC now again after the DST switch, so the effective meeting time should stay the same for everyone! And a second reminder: we currently meet only every second week (the ones with a odd week number)! === Last weeks meeting === Was a week with an even number, thus no meeting. == Stats == === General === Number of EPEL Contributors: 141 We welcome 1 new contributors: nbecker === EPEL 5 === Number of source packages: 800 Number of binary packages: 1497 There are 61 new Packages: * catdoc | A program which converts Microsoft office files to plain text * dblatex | DocBook to LaTeX/ConTeXt Publishing * perl-AppConfig | Perl module for reading configuration files * perl-B-Keywords | Lists of reserved barewords and symbol names * perl-Class-Inspector | Get information about a class and its structure * perl-Config-Tiny | Perl module for reading and writing .ini style configuration files * perl-Data-OptList | Parse and validate simple name/value option pairs * perl-Devel-Cycle | Find memory cycles in objects * perl-Email-Address | RFC 2822 Address Parsing and Creation * perl-Email-MessageID | Generate world unique message-ids * perl-Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper | Strip the attachments from a mail message * perl-Email-MIME-ContentType | Parse a MIME Content-Type Header * perl-Email-MIME | Easy MIME message parsing * perl-Email-MIME-Encodings | Unified interface to MIME encoding and decoding * perl-Email-MIME-Modifier | Modify Email::MIME Objects Easily * perl-Email-Simple | Simple parsing of RFC2822 message format and headers * perl-File-Find-Rule | Perl module implementing an alternative interface to File::Find * perl-File-HomeDir | Get the home directory for yourself or other users * perl-File-Remove | Convenience module for removing files and directories * perl-File-Which | Portable implementation of the 'which' utility * perl-Font-AFM | Perl interface to Adobe Font Metrics files * perl-FreezeThaw | Convert Perl structures to strings and back * perl-GDGraph3d | 3D graph generation package for Perl * perl-Hook-LexWrap | Lexically scoped subroutine wrappers * perl-HTML-Format | HTML formatter modules * perl-Image-Base | Base class for loading, manipulating and saving images in Perl * perl-Image-Info | Image meta information extraction module for Perl * perl-Image-Size | Determine the size of images in several common formats in Perl * perl-Image-Xbm | Load, create, manipulate and save xbm image files in Perl * perl-Image-Xpm | Load, create, manipulate and save xpm image files in Perl * perl-List-MoreUtils | Provide the stuff missing in List::Util * perl-Mail-Transport-Dbx | Parse Outlook Express mailboxes * perl-MLDBM | Store multi-level hash structure in single level tied hash * perl-Module-Pluggable | Automatically give your module the ability to have plugins * perl-Number-Compare | Perl module for numeric comparisons * perl-Package-Generator | Generate new packages quickly and easily * perl-PadWalker | Play with other peoples' lexical variables * perl-Params-Util | Simple standalone param-checking functions * perl-Params-Validate | Params-Validate Perl module * perl-Perl-Critic | Critique Perl source code for best-practices * perl-Pod-Coverage | Checks if the documentation of a module is comprehensive * perl-Pod-Spell | A formatter for spellchecking Pod * perl-PPI | Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl * perl-Return-Value | Polymorphic Return Values * perl-String-Format | Sprintf-like string formatting capabilities with arbitrary format definitions * perl-Sub-Exporter | Sophisticated exporter for custom-built routines * perl-Sub-Install | Install subroutines into packages easily * perl-Test-ClassAPI | Provides basic first-pass API testing for large class trees * perl-Test-Differences | Test strings and data structures and show differences if not ok * perl-Test-Manifest | Test case module for Perl * perl-Test-Memory-Cycle | Check for memory leaks and circular memory references * perl-Test-Object | Thoroughly testing objects via registered handlers * perl-Test-Perl-Critic | Use Perl::Critic in test programs * perl-Test-Spelling | Check for spelling errors in POD files * perl-Test-SubCalls | Track the number of times subs are called * perl-Test-Taint | Tools to test taintedness * perl-TeX-Hyphen | Hyphenate words using TeX's patterns * perl-Text-Glob | Perl module to match globbing patterns against text * perl-Time-Piece | Time objects from localtime and gmtime * python-pp | Parallel execution of python on smp * python-which | Small which replacement that can be used as a Python module === EPEL 4 === Number of source packages: 443 Number of binary packages: 891 There are 1 new Packages: * catdoc | A program which converts Microsoft office files to plain text ---- ["CategoryEPELReports"]