GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry (June 2010)
The recent GNU software releases:
ccscript-4.2.0 glpk-4.44 parted-2.3 emacs-23.2 gnuradio-3.3.0 shishi-1.0.0 enscript-1.6.5.2 gss-1.0.1 sipwitch-0.8.3 freeipmi-0.8.6 gv-3.7.0 solfege-3.16.3 gcal-3.6 inetutils-1.8 ucommon-3.0.2 gcc-4.3.5 libidn-1.19 wdiff-0.6.3 gettext-0.18.1.1 libtasn1-2.7 xnee-3.06 glibc-2.11.2 libtool-2.2.10 zile-2.3.17 global-5.9 parallel-20100601 autoconf-archive-2010.06.04
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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.