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4 @settitle GNU Task List | |
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11 @titlepage | |
12 @title GNU Task List | |
5120 | 13 @author Free Software Foundation |
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15 @end titlepage | |
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19 @top GNU Task List |
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5120 | 21 This file is updated automatically from @file{tasks.texi}, which was |
22 last updated on @value{lastupdate}. | |
5119 | 23 @end ifinfo |
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25 @menu | |
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26 * Intro:: |
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27 * Highest Priority:: |
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28 * Documentation:: |
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29 * Unix-Related Projects:: |
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30 * Kernel Projects:: |
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36 * Games and Recreations:: |
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39 @node Intro |
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42 If you did not obtain this file directly from the GNU project and |
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44 from any GNU FTP host in directory @file{/pub/gnu/tasks/}. The task |
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45 list is available there in several different formats: @file{tasks.text}, |
18588 | 46 @file{tasks.texi}, @file{tasks.info}, and @file{tasks.dvi}. The GNU |
47 HURD task list is also there in file @file{tasks.hurd}. | |
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49 The task list is also available on the GNU World Wide Web server: |
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50 @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/prep/tasks_toc.html}. |
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53 know. We might have information that could help you; we'd also like to |
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54 send you the GNU coding standards. |
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15866 | 56 Because of the natural tendency for most volunteers to write programming |
57 tools or programming languages, we have a comparative shortage of | |
58 applications useful for non-programmer users. Therefore, we ask you to | |
59 consider writing such a program. | |
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61 Typically, a new program that does a completely new job advances |
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62 the GNU project, and the free software community, more than an |
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63 improvement to an existing program. |
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65 Typically, new features or new programs advance the free software |
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66 community more, in the long run, than porting existing programs. One |
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67 reason is that portable new features and programs benefit people on many |
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68 platforms, not just one. At the same time, there tend to be many |
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69 volunteers for porting---so your help will be more valuable in other |
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70 areas, where volunteers are more scarce. |
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72 Typically, it is more useful to extend a program in functionality than |
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73 to improve performance. Users who use the new functionality will |
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74 appreciate it very much, if they use it; but even when they benefit from |
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75 a performance improvement, they may not consider it very important. |
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81 less useful. With luck, at least one of them will inspire you to start |
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82 writing. It's better for you to work on any task that inspires you than |
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83 not write free software at all. |
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85 But if you would like to work on what we need most, here is a list of |
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86 high priority projects. |
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88 @itemize @bullet |
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90 If you are good at writing documentation, please do that. |
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93 If you are very good at C programming and interested in kernels, you can |
18588 | 94 help develop the GNU HURD, the kernel for the GNU system. Please have a |
95 look at @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/hurd/hurd.html}, and | |
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98 @itemize @bullet | |
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101 @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/prep/tasks.hurd.html}, via the World Wide | |
102 Web. | |
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107 @item | |
108 @email{gnu@@prep.ai.mit.edu} via e-mail. | |
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110 @end itemize | |
111 | |
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113 If you are a Scheme fan, you can help develop Guile. Please have a look | |
114 at the URL @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/software/guile/guile.html} | |
115 and then contact @email{guile@@gnu.ai.mit.edu}. | |
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118 Help develop the GNU web browser, E-scape. |
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121 Help develop Windows NT emulation for GNU systems---for example, WINE. |
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124 Implement the Kermit data transfer protocol. (See below.) |
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127 Develop a free compatible replacement for Qt, a GUI toolkit library. Qt |
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133 run without it. These programs, although free software, are useless for |
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140 Develop a substitute, which runs on GNU systems, for some very popular |
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5119 | 146 @chapter Documentation |
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148 We very urgently need documentation for some parts of the system | |
149 that already exist or will exist very soon: | |
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15866 | 153 A C reference manual. (RMS made a try at one, which you could start |
154 with). | |
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156 @item | |
157 A manual for Ghostscript. | |
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159 @item | |
160 A manual for TCSH. | |
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162 @item | |
163 A manual for PIC (the graphics formatting language). | |
164 | |
165 @item | |
166 A manual for Oleo. | |
167 | |
168 @item | |
169 A book on how GCC works and why various machine descriptions | |
170 are written as they are. | |
171 | |
172 @item | |
173 A manual for programming X-window applications. | |
174 | |
175 @item | |
176 Manuals for various X window managers. | |
177 | |
178 @item | |
14803 | 179 Reference cards for those manuals that don't have them: C |
15866 | 180 Compiler, Make, Texinfo, Termcap, and maybe the C Library. |
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182 @item | |
14803 | 183 Many utilities need documentation, including @code{grep} and others. |
5119 | 184 @end itemize |
185 | |
5120 | 186 @node Unix-Related Projects |
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191 An improved version of the POSIX utility @code{pax}. There is one on | |
15866 | 192 Usenet, but it is said to be poorly written. Talk with |
17909 | 193 @code{thomas@@gnu.ai.mit.edu} about this project. |
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197 Modify the GNU @code{dc} program to use the math routines of GNU | |
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202 A @code{grap} preprocessor program for @code{troff}. | |
203 | |
204 @item | |
205 Various other libraries. | |
206 | |
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208 An emulation of SCCS that works using RCS. | |
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212 something to do the same kind of job. Compatibility with Unix is not | |
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236 A shared memory X11 server to run under MACH is very desirable. The | |
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240 An implementation of CIFS, the ``Common Internet File System,'' for the | |
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254 Scheme. This would also make it possible to write, in Scheme, a | |
255 graphical interface that uses Tk and is tightly integrated into GDB. | |
256 | |
257 @item | |
16935 | 258 Rewrite GNU @code{sed} completely, to make it cleaner. |
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260 @item | |
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262 Right now they are written in Perl and TCL, respectively. There are | |
263 also other programs, not terribly long, which we would also like | |
264 to have rewritten in Scheme. | |
265 | |
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280 files without reading entire files into core. | |
281 | |
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283 An @code{nroff} macro package to simplify @code{texi2roff}. | |
284 | |
285 @item | |
286 A queueing system for the mailer Smail that groups pending work by | |
287 destination rather than by original message. This makes it possible | |
288 to schedule retries coherently for each destination. Talk to | |
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312 dancers moving on the screen. | |
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404 @item | |
405 An imitation of @code{dbase2} or @code{dbase3} (How dbased!) | |
406 | |
407 @item | |
408 A bulletin board system. There are a few free ones, but they don't have | |
409 all the features that people want in such systems. It would make sense | |
410 to start with an existing one and add the other features. | |
411 | |
412 @item | |
15866 | 413 A general ledger program, including support for accounts payable, |
414 account receivables, payroll, inventory control, order processing, etc. | |
415 | |
416 @item | |
417 A teleconferencing program which does the job of CU-SeeMe (which is, | |
418 alas, not free software). | |
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420 @item | |
421 A program to typeset C code for printing. | |
14803 | 422 For ideas on what to do, see the book, |
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424 @display | |
425 Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs, | |
426 Ronald M. Baecker and Aaron Marcus, | |
427 Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10745-7 | |
428 @end display | |
429 | |
430 (I don't quite agree with a few of the details they propose.) | |
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434 LaTeX, Texinfo, or some other format that free software can edit. | |
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440 High-quality music compression software. |
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441 (Talk with phr@@netcom.com for relevant suggestions.) |
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444 A program to play sound distributed in ``Real Audio'' format. |
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447 A program to generate ``Real Audio'' format from audio input. |
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451 An MPEG III audio encoder/decoder (but it is necessary to check, first, |
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453 @end ignore |
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5119 | 456 Speech-generation programs (there is a program from Brown U that you |
457 could improve). | |
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464 (A clone of SPSS is being written already.) | |
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467 Statistical tools. | |
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5119 | 482 Grammar and style checking programs. |
483 | |
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502 scanning documents with multiple fonts and capturing font info as well | |
14803 | 503 as character codes. Work is being done on this, but more help is needed. |
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506 A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to Postscript. | |
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509 A program to recognize handwriting. | |
510 | |
511 @item | |
512 A pen based interface. | |
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515 CAD software, such as a vague imitation of Autocad. | |
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5119 | 520 @end itemize |
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523 @chapter Compilers for Other Batch Languages | |
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538 @chapter Games and Recreations | |
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544 Empire (there is a free version but it needs upgrading) | |
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558 Space war, Asteroids, Pong, Columns. | |
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560 Defending cities from missiles. | |
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564 Wizard fights fanciful monster. | |
565 @item | |
566 A golf game. | |
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569 then watch it explore a world. | |
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572 Watchmaker}). |
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574 A program to display effects of moving at relativistic speeds. | |
575 @end itemize | |
576 @end itemize | |
577 | |
578 We do not need @code{rogue}, as we have @code{hack}. | |
579 | |
580 @contents | |
581 | |
582 @bye |