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= Weekly EPEL Summary =

Week 24/2007

== Most important happenings ==

The EPEL Steering Committee discussed the repotags issue once again and once again voted to not use repotags for EPEL. Some discussions started after that; see https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-June/msg00041.html for their start.

== EPEL SIG Meeting ==

=== Attending ===

From the Steering Committee:

* knurd (ThorstenLeemhuis) (partly) * mmcgrath (MikeMcGrath) * nirik (KevinFenzi) * dgilmore (DennisGilmore) * stahnma (MichaelStahnke) * quiad (KarstenWade) (had fun at the dentist)

Missing from the Steering Committee: nobody

Others that participated the meeting: Jeff_S, smooge, notting, lancelan, f13, spot,

=== Summary === * lots of discussion around repotags again; see the full log for details; four votes against repotags, two people are undecided; so once again the decision is "no repotags"

* EPEL mock configs in Fedora's mock package -- should be part of the latest release

* comps.xml for EPEL -- dgilmore is working on it; he'll check something into cvs soon and then post to the list asking people to look over it

* finish the wiki docs and remove the warnings by end of may ; quaid, puts in up on his to-do list as a high priority

== Stats ==

=== General ===

Number of EPEL Contributors 90

We welcome 4 new contributors: dan_AT_danny.cz, jafo-redhat_AT_tummy.com, jafo_AT_tummy.com, mmahut_AT_redhat.com, rob.myers_AT_gtri.gatech.edu, ville.skytta_AT_iki.fi

=== EPEL 5 ===

Number of source packages: 359

Number of binary packages: 578

There are 48 new Packages: * akode | Audio-decoding framework * bonnie++ | Filesystem and disk benchmark & burn-in suite * digitemp | Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire device reading console application * exiv2 | Exif and Iptc metadata manipulation library * factory | C++ class library for multivariate polynomial data * fltk | C++ user interface toolkit * gc | C++ Garbage Collector * glump | A small web application to glue files from multiple sources * kannel | WAP and SMS gateway * kflickr | Standalone Flickr Uploader for KDE * kodos | Visual regular expression editor * libfac | An extension to Singular-factory * libksba | X.509 library * lua | Powerful light-weight programming language * Macaulay2 | System for algebraic geometry and commutative algebra * maxima | Symbolic Computation Program * mdsplib | METAR Decoder Software Package Library * nikto | Web server scanner * ntfs-config | A front-end to Enable/disable NTFS write support * ntl | High-performance algorithms for vectors, matrices, and polynomials * OpenEXR | A high dynamic-range (HDR) image file format * openslp | Open implementation of Service Location Protocol V2 * perl-Convert-BinHex | Macintosh BinHex extractor library for Perl * perl-GDGraph | Graph generation package for Perl * perl-GD | Perl interface to the GD graphics library * perl-GDTextUtil | Text utilities for use with GD * perl-IO-stringy | I/O on in-core objects like strings and arrays for Perl * perl-MIME-tools | Modules for parsing and creating MIME entities in Perl * php-pear-PhpDocumentor | The complete documentation solution for PHP * postgresql-pgpoolAdmin | PgpoolAdmin - web-based pgpool administration * python-genshi | Toolkit for stream-based generation of output for the web * python-imaging | Python's own image processing library * python-IPy | Python module for handling IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses and Networks * python-kid | Kid - A simple and pythonic XML template language * python-pgsql | Enhanced python interface to PostgreSQL * qgit | QGit is a git GUI repository browser * redet-doc | Documentation for redet * redet | Regular expression development and execution tool * sbcl | Steel Bank Common Lisp * SDL_image | Image loading library for SDL * SDL_mixer | Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library * SDL_net | SDL portable network library * SDL_ttf | Simple DirectMedia Layer TrueType Font library * xar | The eXtensible ARchiver * xdg-utils | Basic desktop integration functions * xforms | XForms toolkit library

=== EPEL 4 ===

Number of source packages: 230

Number of binary packages: 423

There are 19 new Packages: * bonnie++ | Filesystem and disk benchmark & burn-in suite * digitemp | Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire device reading console application * lua | A powerful light-weight programming language * mdsplib | METAR Decoder Software Package Library * mock | Builds packages inside chroots * nikto | Web server scanner * perl-Convert-BinHex | Macintosh BinHex extractor library for Perl * perl-IO-stringy | I/O on in-core objects like strings and arrays for Perl * postgresql-pgpoolAdmin | PgpoolAdmin - web-based pgpool administration * python-IPy | Python module for handling IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses and Networks * python-pgsql | Enhanced python interface to PostgreSQL * qgit | QGit is a git GUI repository browser * redet-doc | Documentation for redet * redet | Regular expression development and execution tool * SDL_image | Image loading library for SDL * SDL_mixer | Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library * SDL_net | SDL portable network library * SDL_ttf | Simple DirectMedia Layer TrueType Font library * xar | The eXtensible ARchiver

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