Help Wanted

This is a list of packages for which the maintainers actively seek more helpers.

Please also look at writing free software both for lists of other projects needing doing, and for general guidelines.

Please email <webmasters@gnu.org> if you have a GNU package which you want to have listed here.

• GAWK
  The maintainer is looking for help converting the development gawk source code to automake, integrating gettext and later adding libtool. Experience with the first two are necessary. Please contact Aharon Robbins.

• 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.

• GNU Enterprise
  Wanted: People interested in business economics or any of the related areas listed on the home page.

• Etags
  Wanted: People interested in improving Etags to make it useful with C++. A stack needs to be implemented to keep track of nested structures so that classes (and enum, and struct) inside classes are tagged. If you are interested, please contact <Fransesco Portorti>

• Display Ghostscript System (DGS)
  Wanted: Volunteers to work on Display Ghostscript, an extension to the ghostscript program which will work as a Display PostScript (DPS) server. Please checkout the DGS development page for more information.

• 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>.

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