Are you a new debian developer, looking for some packages to maintain? If so, this list is for you. I need to drop some of my simpler packages to make way for other work. All of the below are up for adoption -- just mail me. Otherwise, I will continue to maintain them.
abuse and abuse-lib The side scrolling action game from crack dot com. It has one bug, which a competant X programmer could probably fix easily. If you take these you should at least consider taking abuse-sfx, which currently has no maintainer and is non-free. Note that abuse is orphaned upstream, and I can't find anyone working on it. atari800 Emulator for the atari 800, 130xe, and similar computers. No open bugs. blast A cool hack that shows just how evil the shape extention is, if E didn't already make that abundently clear. No bugs, no upstream maintainer, a trivial package. floatbg Another cute X hack. No upstream maintainer that I can find. It has one bug, which I have a patch for in the BTS, but the patch probably needs some work before it is applied. Any even barely-competant X programmer can handle this package easily. Heck, even I can almost manage it! luxman A good pac man clone. No bugs. No upstream maintainer I can find. mctools-lite A really nice mixer and a so-so cd player. It has 4 open bugs. The maintainer is not very responsive, though he does still seem to be around. megahal A fun conversation simulator using markov chains. 2 open bugs, and an active and responsive upstream author who is a Debian user. mirrormagic A fun little X game. No bugs, responsive author. nwrite A nicer replacement for write. No bug reports. pente Fun game. No bug reports, and the program is basically perfect, so it's low maintenence. rxp A validating xml parser. This does include a library package, so it's not for absolute newbiews. No bug reports. space-orbit Fairly realistic game involving flying around the solar system. Can double an an educational aid. No bugs, reponsive author. thrust Clone of a classic C64 game. No bugs, responsive author, although development has been stalled for several years. toshutils Utilities for toshiba laptops -- needs someone who uses a toshiba laptop to maintain it, and I no longer do. No bugs, and the author is still developing new features for it. This is _not_ a trivial package, it includes a kernel module. unclutter Handy program to hide the X mouse cursor. No bugs, author is probably missing, though I've never actually had any reason to contact them. wmnetselect No bugs reports. Trivial little program to launch netscape with some handy features. wordplay Anagram generator. No bugs, no updates since 1996 or so. xbl Rather neat 3d tetris game. No bugs. xboing Breakout type game. 3 bugs. xfishtank Like the name says.. There is one bug that could be easily fixed by a competant X programmer, and I've never contacted the author -- it's quite an old program, but still fun. xflip A little X toy. No bugs. xmountains Generates snow-capped mountain ranges as wallpaper. No bugs. xonix-jahu Odd little X game. Upstream author seems to have moved on to other things. There is one bug. xtet42 Multi-player tetris. No bugs. xzoom Magnifies a region of the X display. No bugs. -- see shy jo
