Open Source Comes to Campus/Wellesley/Tasks

= List of straightforward-looking tasks =

brlcad
General contact: brlcad (Sean) on #brlcad


 * Summary: Moving comments from .c to .h
 * VERY EASY: Move LIBBN comments from source to header files
 * Notes: Doc changes only; should be easy
 * Version control system: svn
 * Language: C

GNU patch
General contact: FIXME. Language: C. Version control system: ??.

A bitesize bug:


 * Fix GNU Patch to print errors to stderr
 * Note: Might affect quite a few files

Another bitesize bug:


 * Better error reporting for no disk space
 * Notes: Looks fairly straightforward at a first glance...

PostgreSQL
General contact: Snow-Man (Stephen) on #postgresql. Language: C. Version control system: git.


 * Be a PostgreSQL patch reviewer
 * Note: Use the PostgreSQL Commitfest application


 * Review the PostgreSQL TODO list
 * Note: Discuss your approach to a given problem on -hackers.

BioPython
Task:


 * Bio.ExPASy sprot_search_ful has wrong cgi address
 * Note: This should be a fairly simple, bitesize change. However, it may be difficult to figure out what the right CGI address is!

Task:


 * Fix the tutorial to stop referring to nonexistent BioPython functionality
 * Note: This should be fairly simple. It requires finding the tutorial!