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\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
@c %**start of header
@setfilename tasks.info
@settitle GNU Task List
@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:
@set lastupdate October 11, 2000
@c %**end of header

@setchapternewpage off

@titlepage

* X Windows Projects::          
* Network Projects::            
* Encryption Projects::         
* Other Projects::              
* Languages::                   
* Games and Recreations::       
@end menu

@node Intro, Highest Priority, Top, Top
@chapter About the GNU Task List

@itemize @bullet

@item 
A new maintainer is needed for Goose
@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/goose/goose.html}.

@item
If you are good at writing documentation, please do that.

@item

proprietary manuals do not count, for the same reason proprietary
software does not count: we are not free to copy and modify them.
We do not recommend any non-free materials as documentation.

@itemize @bullet
@item
A manual for libstdc++.

@item
A unified manual for La@TeX{}.  (Existing documentation is non-free.)

A coherent free reference manual for Perl.  Most of the Perl on-line
reference documentation can be used as a starting point, but work is
needed to weld them together into a coherent manual.

@ignore
@c Bradley Kuhn is working on this. <[e-mail]>
@item
A good free Perl language tutorial introduction.  The existing Perl
introductions are published with restrictions on copying and
modification, so that they cannot be part of a GNU system.
@end ignore

A queueing system for the mailer Smail that groups pending work by
destination rather than by original message.  This makes it possible
to schedule retries coherently for each destination.  Talk to
@email{tron@@veritas.com} and @email{woods@@weird.com} about this.

@item
Enhanced cross-reference browsing tools.  (We now have something at
about the level of @code{cxref}.)  We also could use something like
@code{ctrace}.  (Some people are now working on this project.)
@end itemize

@node X Windows Projects, Network Projects, Extensions, Top
@chapter X Windows Projects

@c Gepetto (@url{http://laurent.riesterer.free.fr/gepetto/intro-main.html},
@c @email{laurent.riesterer@@free.fr}), according to @email{gnueval@@gnu.org},
@c does the job of displaing dancers but does not allow editing notation.

@item
A program to edit dance notation (such as labanotation) and display
dancers moving on the screen.  Gepetto done some of this work.  Contact
@email{gvc@@gnu.org} if you are interested in helping finish the job.

@item
Make sure the Vibrant toolkit works with LessTif instead of Motif.

@item

account receivables, payroll, inventory control, order processing, etc.
@end ignore

@item
A free replacement for Glimpse, which is not free software.

@item
Software for desktop publishing.  We are extending Emacs into a WYSIWYG
word processor, to handle primarily linear text; what this item proposes
is software focused on page layout.

@c Some of the OCR work being done:
@c   Luis Cearra <[e-mail]>, http://lem.eui.upm.es/ocre.html
@c The status of these projects is updated in @file{/gd/gnuorg/volunteers}

@item
A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to Postscript.

@item
A program to recognize handwriting.

@item
A program that can translate from one natural language, into another.
For example, a program to translate French into English.

apparently been ported, but according to what we hear this port is not
useful yet.)

@end itemize

@node Languages, Games and Recreations, Other Projects, Top
@chapter Programming Languages

Volunteers are needed to write parsers/front ends for languages such as
Algol 60, Algol 68, PL/I, Cobol, Fortran 90, Delphi, Modula 2, Modula 3,
RPG, and any other languages designed for compilation, to be used with

We would like to have translators from various languages into Scheme.
These languages include TCL, Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, and Rexx.
Perhaps Clipper as well.

@node Games and Recreations,  , Languages, Top
@chapter Games and Recreations

Video-oriented games that work with the X window system.

@itemize @bullet

@item
An ``empire builder'' system that makes it easy to write various kinds of
simulation games.

@item
Improve GnuGo, which is not yet very sophisticated.

@item
Network servers and clients for board and card games for which such
software does not yet exist.

Local variables:
update-date-leading-regexp: "@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:\n@set lastupdate "
update-date-trailing-regexp: ""
eval: (load "/gd/gnuorg/update-date.el")
eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'update-date)
End:

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\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
@c %**start of header
@setfilename tasks.info
@settitle GNU Task List
@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:
@set lastupdate January 15, 2001
@c %**end of header

@setchapternewpage off

@titlepage

* X Windows Projects::          
* Network Projects::            
* Encryption Projects::         
* Other Projects::              
* Languages::                   
* Education::                   
* Games and Recreations::       
@end menu

@node Intro, Highest Priority, Top, Top
@chapter About the GNU Task List

@itemize @bullet

@item 
A new maintainer is needed for Goose
@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/goose/goose.html}.

@item
If you are good at writing documentation, please do that.

@item

proprietary manuals do not count, for the same reason proprietary
software does not count: we are not free to copy and modify them.
We do not recommend any non-free materials as documentation.

@itemize @bullet

@item
A reference document for SQL for use as a standard for implementors of
free software versions of SQL.

@item
A manual for libstdc++.

@item
A unified manual for La@TeX{}.  (Existing documentation is non-free.)

A coherent free reference manual for Perl.  Most of the Perl on-line
reference documentation can be used as a starting point, but work is
needed to weld them together into a coherent manual.

@ignore
@c Bradley M. Kuhn is working on this. <[e-mail]>
@item
A good free Perl language tutorial introduction.  The existing Perl
introductions are published with restrictions on copying and
modification, so that they cannot be part of a GNU system.
@end ignore

A queueing system for the mailer Smail that groups pending work by
destination rather than by original message.  This makes it possible
to schedule retries coherently for each destination.  Talk to
@email{tron@@veritas.com} and @email{woods@@weird.com} about this.

@end itemize

@node X Windows Projects, Network Projects, Extensions, Top
@chapter X Windows Projects

@c Gepetto (@url{http://laurent.riesterer.free.fr/gepetto/intro-main.html},
@c @email{laurent.riesterer@@free.fr}), according to @email{gnueval@@gnu.org},
@c does the job of displaing dancers but does not allow editing notation.


@item
Make sure the Vibrant toolkit works with LessTif instead of Motif.

@item

account receivables, payroll, inventory control, order processing, etc.
@end ignore

@item
A free replacement for Glimpse, which is not free software.
Swish does some parts of the job, but not all.

@item
Software for desktop publishing.  We are extending Emacs into a WYSIWYG
word processor, to handle primarily linear text; what this item proposes
is software focused on page layout.

@c Some of the OCR work being done:
@c   Luis Cearra <[e-mail]>, http://lem.eui.upm.es/ocre.html
@c The status of these projects is updated in @file{/gd/gnuorg/volunteers}

@item
A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to editable Postscript,
or some other editable format.

@item
A program to recognize handwriting (we don't believe PocketLinux's 
handwriting capability is ready for non-PocketLinux environments, yet).


@item
A program that can translate from one natural language, into another.
For example, a program to translate French into English.

apparently been ported, but according to what we hear this port is not
useful yet.)

@end itemize

@node Languages, Education, Other Projects, Top
@chapter Programming Languages

Volunteers are needed to write parsers/front ends for languages such as
Algol 60, Algol 68, PL/I, Cobol, Fortran 90, Delphi, Modula 2, Modula 3,
RPG, and any other languages designed for compilation, to be used with

We would like to have translators from various languages into Scheme.
These languages include TCL, Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, and Rexx.
Perhaps Clipper as well.

@node Education, Games and Recreations, Languages, Top
@chapter Education

Programs for studying, teaching or doing administrative tasks in schools.
See @uref{http://www.gnu.org/education/} for additional information.

@itemize @bullet
@item
A programm to organize automatically the schedule of a school given
constraints about teachers, rooms, times, and students.

@item
A program to edit dance notation (such as labanotation) and display
dancers moving on the screen.  Gepetto does some of this work.  Contact
@email{gvc@@gnu.org} if you are interested in helping finish the job.

@end itemize

@node Games and Recreations,  , Education, Top
@chapter Games and Recreations

Video-oriented games that work with the X window system.

@itemize @bullet

@item
An ``empire builder'' system that makes it easy to write various kinds of
simulation games.

@item
Improve GnuGo @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html}, which is not yet very sophisticated. 

@item
Network servers and clients for board and card games for which such
software does not yet exist.

Local variables:
update-date-leading-regexp: "@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:\n@set lastupdate "
update-date-trailing-regexp: ""
eval: (load "/gd/gnuorg/update-date.el")
eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'update-date)
compile-command: "make just-tasks"
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