http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week35
(sorry, a bit late this time; was busy on sunday, afk Monday after work
and didn't get it completely finished yesterday evening)
= 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
[
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-August/msg02213.html
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
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