First quick stab at organizing TODO under whose TODO item it is.

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 Busybox TODO
 
-Stuff that needs to be done.  All of this is fair game for 1.2.
+Stuff that needs to be done.  This is organized by who plans to get around to
+doing it eventually, but that doesn't mean they "own" the item.  If you want to
+do one of these bounce an email off the person it's listed under to see if they
+have any suggestions how they plan to go about it, and to minimize conflicts
+between your work and theirs.  But otherwise, all of these are fair game.
+
+Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>:
+  Migrate calloc() and bb_calloc() occurrences to bb_xzalloc().
+  Remove obsolete _() wrapper crud for internationalization we don't do.
+  Figure out where we need utf8 support, and add it.
+
+  sh
+    The command shell situation is a big mess.  We have three or four different
+    shells that don't really share any code, and the "standalone shell" doesn't
+    work all that well (especially not in a chroot environment), due to apps not
+    being reentrant.  I'm writing a new shell (bbsh) to unify the various
+    shells and configurably add the minimal set of bash features people
+    actually use.  The hardest part is it has to configure down as small as
+    lash while providing lash's features.  The rest is easy in comparison.
+  bzip2
+    Compression-side support.
+  init
+    General cleanup.
+  Unify base64 handling.
+    There's base64 encoding and decoding going on in:
+      networking/wget.c:base64enc()
+      coreutils/uudecode.c:read_base64()
+      coreutils/uuencode.c:tbl_base64[]
+      networking/httpd.c:decodeBase64()
+    And probably elsewhere.  That needs to be unified into libbb functions.
+  Do a SUSv3 audit
+    Look at the full Single Unix Specification version 3 (available online at
+    "http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html") and
+    figure out which of our apps are compliant, and what we're missing that
+    we might actually care about.
+
+    Even better would be some kind of automated compliance test harness that
+    exercises each command line option and the various corner cases.
+  Internationalization
+    How much internationalization should we do?
+
+    The low hanging fruit is UTF-8 character set support.  We should do this.
+    (Vodz pointed out the shell's cmdedit as needing work here.  What else?)
+
+    We also have lots of hardwired english text messages.  Consolidating this
+    into some kind of message table not only makes translation easier, but
+    also allows us to consolidate redundant (or close) strings.
+
+    We probably don't want to be bloated with locale support.  (Not unless we
+    can cleanly export it from our underlying C library without having to
+    concern ourselves with it directly.  Perhaps a few specific things like a
+    config option for "date" are low hanging fruit here?)
+
+    What level should things happen at?  How much do we care about
+    internationalizing the text console when X11 and xterms are so much better
+    at it?  (There's some infrastructure here we don't implement: The
+    "unicode_start" and "unicode_stop" shell scripts need "vt-is-UTF8" and a
+    --unicode option to loadkeys.  That implies a real loadkeys/dumpkeys
+    implementation to replace loadkmap/dumpkmap.  Plus messing with console font
+    loading.  Is it worth it, or do we just say "use X"?)
+
+  Individual compilation of applets.
+    It would be nice if busybox had the option to compile to individual applets,
+    for people who want an alternate implementation less bloated than the gnu
+    utils (or simply with less political baggage), but without it being one big
+    executable.
+
+    Turning libbb into a real dll is another possibility, especially if libbb
+    could export some of the other library interfaces we've already more or less
+    got the code for (like zlib).
+  buildroot - Make a "dogfood" option
+    Busybox 1.1 will be capable of replacing most gnu packages for real world
+    use, such as developing software or in a live CD.  It needs wider testing.
+
+    Busybox should now be able to replace bzip2, coreutils, e2fsprogs, file,
+    findutils, gawk, grep, inetutils, less, modutils, net-tools, patch, procps,
+    sed, shadow, sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, util-linux, and vim.  The resulting
+    system should be self-hosting (I.E. able to rebuild itself from source
+    code).  This means it would need (at least) binutils, gcc, and make, or
+    equivalents.
+
+    It would be a good "eating our own dogfood" test if buildroot had the option
+    of using a "make allyesconfig" busybox instead of the all of the above
+    packages.  Anything that's wrong with the resulting system, we can fix.  (It
+    would be nice to be able to upgrade busybox to be able to replace bash and
+    diffutils as well, but we're not there yet.)
+
+    One example of an existing system that does this already is Firmware Linux:
+      http://www.landley.net/code/firmware
+  initramfs
+    Busybox should have a sample initramfs build script.  This depends on
+    bbsh, mdev, and switch_root.
+
+
+Bernhard Fischer <rep.nop@anon.at>:
+  Makefile stuff:
+    make -j is broken, -j1 is forced atm
+
+As yet unclaimed:
 
-build system
-  make -j is broken, -j1 is forced atm
-  Make sure that the flags get pinned in e.g. Rules.mak so when expanding them
-  later on you get the cached result without the need to re-evaluate them.
 ----
 find
   doesn't understand (), lots of susv3 stuff.
 ----
-sh
-  The command shell situation is a big mess.  We have three or four different
-  shells that don't really share any code, and the "standalone shell" doesn't
-  work all that well (especially not in a chroot environment), due to apps not
-  being reentrant.  Unifying the various shells and figuring out a configurable
-  way of adding the minimal set of bash features a given script uses is a big
-  job, but it would be a big improvement.
-
-  Note: Rob Landley (rob@landley.net) is working on a new unified shell called
-  bbsh, but it's a low priority...
----
 diff
-  Also, make sure we handle empty files properly:
+  Make sure we handle empty files properly:
     From the patch man page:
 
    you can remove a file by sending out a context diff that compares
@@ -45,18 +128,9 @@ man
 
   (How doclifter might work into this is anybody's guess.)
 ---
-bzip2
-  Compression-side support.
----
-init
-  General cleanup.
----
 ar
   Write support?
 ---
-mdev
-  Micro-udev.
----
 crond
   turn FEATURE_DEBUG_OPT into ENABLE_FEATURE_CROND_DEBUG_OPT
 
@@ -74,46 +148,6 @@ bb_close() with fsync()
   You need to call fsync() if you care about errors that occur after write(),
   but that can have a big performance impact.  So make it a config option.
 ---
-Unify base64 handling.
-  There's base64 encoding and decoding going on in:
-    networking/wget.c:base64enc()
-    coreutils/uudecode.c:read_base64()
-    coreutils/uuencode.c:tbl_base64[]
-    networking/httpd.c:decodeBase64()
-  And probably elsewhere.  That needs to be unified into libbb functions.
----
-Do a SUSv3 audit
-  Look at the full Single Unix Specification version 3 (available online at
-  "http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html") and
-  figure out which of our apps are compliant, and what we're missing that
-  we might actually care about.
-
-  Even better would be some kind of automated compliance test harness that
-  exercises each command line option and the various corner cases.
----
-Internationalization
-  How much internationalization should we do?
-
-  The low hanging fruit is UTF-8 character set support.  We should do this.
-  (Vodz pointed out the shell's cmdedit as needing work here.  What else?)
-
-  We also have lots of hardwired english text messages.  Consolidating this
-  into some kind of message table not only makes translation easier, but
-  also allows us to consolidate redundant (or close) strings.
-
-  We probably don't want to be bloated with locale support.  (Not unless we can
-  cleanly export it from our underlying C library without having to concern
-  ourselves with it directly.  Perhaps a few specific things like a config
-  option for "date" are low hanging fruit here?)
-
-  What level should things happen at?  How much do we care about
-  internationalizing the text console when X11 and xterms are so much better
-  at it?  (There's some infrastructure here we don't implement: The
-  "unicode_start" and "unicode_stop" shell scripts need "vt-is-UTF8" and a
-  --unicode option to loadkeys.  That implies a real loadkeys/dumpkeys
-  implementation to replace loadkmap/dumpkmap.  Plus messing with console font
-  loading.  Is it worth it, or do we just say "use X"?)
----
 Unify archivers
   Lots of archivers have the same general infrastructure.  The directory
   traversal code should be factored out, and the guts of each archiver could
@@ -129,39 +163,6 @@ Text buffer support.
   a whole file into memory and act on it.  There might be an opportunity
   for shared code in there that could be moved into libbb...
 ---
-Individual compilation of applets.
-  It would be nice if busybox had the option to compile to individual applets,
-  for people who want an alternate implementation less bloated than the gnu
-  utils (or simply with less political baggage), but without it being one big
-  executable.
-
-  Turning libbb into a real dll is another possibility, especially if libbb
-  could export some of the other library interfaces we've already more or less
-  got the code for (like zlib).
----
-buildroot - Make a "dogfood" option
-  Busybox 1.1 will be capable of replacing most gnu packages for real world use,
-  such as developing software or in a live CD.  It needs wider testing.
-
-  Busybox should now be able to replace bzip2, coreutils, e2fsprogs, file,
-  findutils, gawk, grep, inetutils, less, modutils, net-tools, patch, procps,
-  sed, shadow, sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, util-linux, and vim.  The resulting
-  system should be self-hosting (I.E. able to rebuild itself from source code).
-  This means it would need (at least) binutils, gcc, and make, or equivalents.
-
-  It would be a good "eating our own dogfood" test if buildroot had the option
-  of using a "make allyesconfig" busybox instead of the all of the above
-  packages.  Anything that's wrong with the resulting system, we can fix.  (It
-  would be nice to be able to upgrade busybox to be able to replace bash and
-  diffutils as well, but we're not there yet.)
-
-  One example of an existing system that does this already is Firmware Linux:
-    http://www.landley.net/code/firmware
----
-initramfs
-  Busybox should have a sample initramfs build script.  This depends on
-  bbsh, mdev, and switch_root.
----
 Memory Allocation
   We have a CONFIG_BUFFER mechanism that lets us select whether to do memory
   allocation on the stack or the heap.  Unfortunately, we're not using it much.