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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