GNU Spotlight January 2011

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 34, January 2011:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

  • autoconf-archive-2011.01.02
  • ccaudio2-2.0.0
  • ccrtp-1.8.0
  • coreutils-8.9
  • ddrescue-1.14
  • freeipmi-1.0.1
  • gnuchess-5.08
  • gnupg-2.0.17
  • gnuprolog-java_0.2.6
  • guile-ncurses-1.2
  • libmicrohttpd-0.9.6
  • libosip2-3.5.0
  • libzrtpcpp-1.6.0
  • mcsim-5.4.0
  • moe-1.4
  • ocrad-0.21
  • parallel-20110125
  • swbis-1.9
  • ucommon-4.1.0
  • xnee-3.08
  • xorriso-1.0.0

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This month we welcome Adam Dutko as a new co-maintainer of GNU Fontutils (with me, so personal thanks to Adam), and Antonio Ceballos as the new maintainer of GNU Chess -- check out the new GNU Chess 6 pretest at http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/chess/.

A revived GNU Status Report bulletin was published a few days ago, http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/. It has news and information on a few GNU packages: GCC, Hurd, Coreutils, etc. (We hope the next installment will include reports from many more packages.)

Several GNU packages are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to GNU, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.