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[seth AT swoolley.homeip.net]

Hi smgl'ers-who-aren't-developers-yet,

I have a perfect opportunity for those who don't know so much about 
sorcery internals to contribute fixes!

Prometheus is our automated testing suite that finds compile errors when 
casting spells.  Well one of the most common errors is a missing 
dependency.  I've run prometheus against stable-rc and have found a 
whole slew of missing dependencies.  These look similar most of the 
time:

  * compile errors with missing headers (missing the entire spell -- do 
    worry about these)

  * compile breaks during ./configure stage saying something's missing

  * compile errors with undefined references (missing an optional 
    subdependency -- don't worry about those if you don't know about 
    these yet since stable sorcery doesn't support those yet)

The prometheus bugs that probably closely match the first two bullets 
are here:

http://bugs.sourcemage.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=cast+failure+swoolley-0-4&bug_status=NEW&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=missing

If we could have a volunteer specifically take these spells on by 
registering a bugzilla account, assigning them to yourself and editing 
them in perforce/git/svn whatever, I would much appreciate it.  These 
are quick fixes and I can walk anybody through the first few fixes to 
get you on the road to more than sorcery -- guruness.

Seth