Help wanted

This page is intended as a collection of tasks that the SYSLINUX project needs. If you are interested in helping out with any of these, please contact the mailing list.

Nontechnical tasks

• Organize the web page and wiki
• Unify the web page and wiki (bring the wiki up to date with the web page, so the old webpage can be discontinued.)
• Clean up and unify the documentation

General tasks

• Testing 4.00-preX
• Finishing scripting system

Subsystem maintainer wanted

• Simple menu system
• Complex menu system

(In both cases, not including the underlying libraries.)

Isolated technical tasks

• Merging command-line handling between extlinux and "dos","win32" and "mtools" version of the installers
• Rewrite gfxboot in C
• Fixing cmenu so that it doesn't need BIOS
• Rethink the build system
• Rewrite the CLI as a COM32 module (in progress)
• Develop a scripting interface for menu item/boot selection. (Will need ongoing maintenance.) (Lua interpreter ported)
• New filesystems (filesystem support in C developed but not yet checked in)

Technical subtasks for future development

• Merging the syslinux 4 [pathbased] changed into syslinux 5 [elflink] and make that branch operational
• An ELF module loader/dynamic linker, to allow multiple C modules to coexist (in progress)
• Clean up the Makefile system