Hi all!

This weekend I took a closer look at our wishlist and added a bunch of
(IMHO) popular Fedora packages still missing in EPEL. Then I wrote a
little script that emailed all the owners and co-maintainers asking them
for their EPEL plans regarding the package in question; to track that I
added a status column in the wishlist. See:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/WishList

I plan do to that again now and then in the future -- so if you want to
see a package in EPEL just add it to the wishlist with the status
"unknown" -- then my script (when I run it) will send a mail to the
maintainer.

There are a few packages on the wishlist where the Fedora owner does no
participate in EPEL. And takers for them? Here's the list:

> || bazaar || A distributed revision control system ||
> || chkrootkit || Tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit ||
> || freenx || Free Software (GPL) Implementation of the NX Server ||
> || libsidplay || Commodore 64 music player and SID chip emulator library ||
> || mediawiki || A wiki engine ||
> || mmv || Move/copy/append/link multiple files ||
> || rt3 || Request tracker 3 ||
> || sylpheed || GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client ||

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>> || freenx || Free Software (GPL) Implementation of the NX Server ||

I co-maintain freenx already, I may as well do it for EPEL as well.

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On 10.12.2007 12:01, Jon Ciesla wrote:
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>>> || freenx || Free Software (GPL) Implementation of the NX Server ||
> I co-maintain freenx already, I may as well do it for EPEL as well.

Sounds good, thx Jon!

BTW, some more Fedora packagers after that mail-flood from me expressed
that they don't want to participate in EPEL but would welcome
comaintainers that take care of their packages in EPEL. So here is a
list of packages from the wishlist that want a EPEL maintainer:

> || basket || Notes taker for KDE ||
> || bochs || Portable x86 PC emulator ||
> || freecol || The FreeCol multi-player strategy game ||
> || gnome-commander || A nice and fast file manager for the GNOME desktop ||
> || gnumeric || Spreadsheet program for GNOME ||
> || id3lib || Library for manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags ||
> || imlib2 || Image loading, saving, rendering, and manipulation library ||
> || ksensors || KDE frontend to lm_sensors ||
> || libcddb || Library (C API) for accessing CDDB servers ||
> || libebml || Extensible Binary Meta Language library ||
> || libmatroska || Open audio/video container format library ||
> || libsamplerate || Sample rate conversion library for audio data ||
> || libtar || Tar file manipulation API ||
> || libtimidity || MIDI to WAVE converter library ||
> || mdbtools || Access data stored in Microsoft Access databases ||
> || perl-Unicode-MapUTF8 || Conversions to and from arbitrary character sets and UTF8 ||
> || psi || Jabber client based on Qt ||
> || pure-ftpd || Lightweight, fast and secure FTP server ||
> || quake3 || Quake 3 Arena tournament 3D shooter game ||
> || rt3 || Request tracker 3 ||
> || soundtouch || Audio Processing library for changing Tempo, Pitch and Playback Rates ||
> || supertuxkart || Kids 3D go-kart racing game featuring Tux ||
> || taglib || Audio Meta-Data Library ||
> || wildmidi || WildMidi softsynth midi player ||
> || xscreensaver || X screen saver and locker ||


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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:22:39 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> This weekend I took a closer look at our wishlist and added a bunch of
> (IMHO) popular Fedora packages still missing in EPEL. Then I wrote a
> little script that emailed all the owners and co-maintainers asking them
> for their EPEL plans regarding the package in question; to track that I
> added a status column in the wishlist. See:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/WishList
>
> I plan do to that again now and then in the future -- so if you want to
> see a package in EPEL just add it to the wishlist with the status
> "unknown" -- then my script (when I run it) will send a mail to the
> maintainer.
>
> There are a few packages on the wishlist where the Fedora owner does no
> participate in EPEL. And takers for them? Here's the list:
>

> || libsidplay || Commodore 64 music player and SID chip emulator library ||

Why is it on the wishlist? Just because some other packages use it?

If anyone has interest in packaging libsidplay2 instead [for Fedora or
EPEL], feel free to add me as a reviewer.

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On 10.12.2007 14:29, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:22:39 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
>> || libsidplay || Commodore 64 music player and SID chip emulator library ||
> Why is it on the wishlist? Just because some other packages use it?

Yes, I suppose that's how it landed there, but I didn't track that
information for each request on the wishlist.

> If anyone has interest in packaging libsidplay2 instead [for Fedora or
> EPEL], feel free to add me as a reviewer.

k, thx.

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On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 09:22 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> This weekend I took a closer look at our wishlist and added a bunch of
> (IMHO) popular Fedora packages still missing in EPEL. Then I wrote a
> little script that emailed all the owners and co-maintainers asking them
> for their EPEL plans regarding the package in question; to track that I
> added a status column in the wishlist. See:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/WishList
>
> I plan do to that again now and then in the future -- so if you want to
> see a package in EPEL just add it to the wishlist with the status
> "unknown" -- then my script (when I run it) will send a mail to the
> maintainer.

It would be really useful if the wishlist also stated who requested it
with a very brief reason - two of my packages (ruby-activesupport and
ruby-activerecord) are on that list.

I don't really want to put them into EPEL; I'd much rather put all of
the rails gems in there, (rubygem-rails and dependencies), but I'd like
to have a quick chat with whoever wants those packages to make sure that
that is what they need.

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On Dec 10, 2007 12:22 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@leemhuis.info> wrote:
> Hi all!

Hi, I received a couple of these e-mails, one of the packages is
waiting on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238455

I'm not sure why this bug is being delayed, IFAIK Smarty is the only
package that uses /usr/share/php and since Smarty isn't in EPEL I
don't understand why we cannot add a /usr/share/php directory.

Perhaps Joe Orton knows more, is there any way we can get this bug expedited?

TIA
-Chris

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On Dec 10, 2007 2:30 PM, Christopher Stone <chris.stone@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2007 12:22 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@leemhuis.info> wrote:
> > Hi all!
>
> Hi, I received a couple of these e-mails, one of the packages is
> waiting on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238455
>
> I'm not sure why this bug is being delayed, IFAIK Smarty is the only
> package that uses /usr/share/php and since Smarty isn't in EPEL I
> don't understand why we cannot add a /usr/share/php directory.
>
> Perhaps Joe Orton knows more, is there any way we can get this bug expedited?
>
> TIA
> -Chris
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A couple of my php packages do. I think php-Phlickr is one. (might
be the only one off hand).

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On Dec 10, 2007 4:34 PM, Michael Stahnke <mastahnke@gmail.com> wrote:
> A couple of my php packages do. I think php-Phlickr is one. (might
> be the only one off hand).

right, and your packages should not have been built for EPEL-5 because
this dir doesnt exist yet. We need that bug fixed and closed.

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On 11.12.2007 02:37, Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2007 4:34 PM, Michael Stahnke <mastahnke@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A couple of my php packages do. I think php-Phlickr is one. (might
>> be the only one off hand).
> right, and your packages should not have been built for EPEL-5 because
> this dir doesnt exist yet. We need that bug fixed and closed.

Isn't there a workaround we could use until the bug in question gets
fixed? I suppose it might take a while until that happens...

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