GNU Help Wanted - News
posted by toby, Mon Jan 14 17:18:01 2013 - 0 replies
Sebastian Diaz is the GNU Motti maintainer, so I have closed the "Help Wanted" task asking for someone to maintain Motti.
posted by karl, Sun May 23 17:42:30 2010 - 1 reply
I thought I'd post the current list of GNU
packages looking for maintainers in this channel
too, hopefully reaching some different people than
its other incarnations:
alive - auto login and keep-alive daemon
dr-geo - interactive work with geometric figures
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posted by toby, Fri Jan 8 14:10:04 2010 - 0 replies
There were only two tasks in it (along with a bunch of spam) - one was a test and the other was misplaced, so it's better to concentrate on servicing the mailing list and push as much activity as we can to it.
posted by toby, Sat Dec 26 19:06:37 2009 - 0 replies
It's been 6 years since I added that task on Savannah, and years before that since there was any activity on that task so people who want to provide doc help to GCC should look at http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/documentation.html for tasks.
posted by toby, Mon Jun 29 01:03:12 2009 - 1 reply
For many years we've had an entry on the games tasklist item for "A realistic train-driving simulator." I've found two projects that might satisfy this requirement: http://www.openttd.org/ (which is GPL licensed) and http://openbve.trainsimcentral.co.uk/ which is public domain. Both take different approaches to the idea of simulating train traffic, and both look pretty interesting in their own ways.
posted by toby, Wed May 27 11:36:33 2009 - 0 replies
We used to have a job posting for volunteers to make a Free Software replacement for Google Earth. This is now an FSF High Priority project (see http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html#gereplacment) so there's no longer a need to duplicate it on this task list.
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posted by toby, Tue Sep 2 00:43:15 2008 - 0 replies
For a very long time, the task list has had an item "If you're up for a "grand challenge" you can tackle a problem that's frustrated computer scientists and linguists for almost 40 years: translating one natural language into another." We recently learned about Apertium (http://www.apertium.org/) which appears to be making good progress on this task. If you're interested in natural language translation then we'd recommend that you take a look at Apertium.
posted by toby, Wed Oct 25 15:40:13 2006 - 0 replies
I added a new task to the tasklist to improve the Free documentation for MySQL. The MySQL relational database is Free Software, but the documentation provided by MySQL AB is non-Free. There's a project to document MySQL at WikiBooks (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MySQL) and we encourage anyone that's interested in MySQL (or SQL in general) to contribute.
posted by toby, Mon Jul 3 14:27:27 2006 - 3 replies
At rms' request I added a tasklist item asking for volunteers to work on a Free alternative to the proprietary "Google Earth" client. If you're interested in this project please let gvc@gnu.org know.
posted by toby, Fri Mar 31 16:37:29 2006 - 0 replies
Both Harbour (http://www.harbour-project.org/) and Clip (http://www.itk.ru/english/index.shtml) seem to be humming along nicely, so people who need to run xBase/Clipper programs and want to use Free Software should be able to do so. I'm closing the Task List entry for xBase, if someone wants to work on it they could work on either of those projects.
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