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More help is needed and actively sought by the maintainers of these packages. Please also look at writing free software both for lists of other projects needing doing, and for general guidelines.

This page is being phased out. Please see the Savannah tasklist if you are looking for a project or idea that needs help.

  • Guile needs people to write translators to convert additional languages into Scheme. Providing parser-generator facilities (perhaps by giving Bison the ability to generate Scheme code, or in some other method) would be helpful for writing translators.

  • GNU Pipo-BBS
    The GNU Pipo-BBS project has decided to make major changes in the code and to the organization of the package and is therefore actively seeking help with this.

  • XBase
    Wanted: The following tasks/position are needed/open for the xbase project:
    1. Administration:
      a) Migrate the xbase project source code and mailing list off the xbase/startech server to the GNU public servers
    2. Marketing
      a) Increase awareness of the xbase project
    3. Programming tasks
      a) Develop additional indexing logic to make the xbase project even more compatible with existing legacy applications. In particular .MDX, and .CDX index file formats.
      b) Continued development of locking logic which is compatible with other existing xbase type tools.
    For information, contact <Gary Kunkel>.

  • GNU CSSC needs your help!
    CSSC is a nearly complete re-implementation of SCCS. It has an extensive test suite, but a single known bug (this bug does not affect the majority of users, but a minority of users are thoroughly inconvenienced by it). Test cases exist for this bug.
    It is estimated that there is about a week's work in fixing the problem. The test suite is extensive enough that a limited understanding of the way that CSSC (or SCCS) works is not a problem; that is, if you accidentally break anything, the test suite will tell you.
    If you want to help, please email the current maintainer, James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>. A detailed synopsis of the problem is available on CSSC's page.

  • PIKT
    Wanted: Volunteers to work on a GUI interface, to add security extensions and do a thorough security audit, also to help rewrite the pikt script interpreter (basing it most likely on the GNU Guile extension language). If interested, please contact <robert.osterlund@gsb.uchicago.edu>.

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