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+# fortune-mod Maintenance Version and Ongoing Development
+
+This GitHub repository maintains the sources for fortune-mod, a
+version of
+[the UNIX fortune command](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29)
+to display a random quote from a collection of quotes, on the command line.
+
+For more information about it you can contact
+[Shlomi Fish](http://www.shlomifish.org/) .
+
+# What was already done.
+
+1. fortune-mod-1.99.1 was imported into the repository from the Mageia tarball
+as the tag.
+
+2. Cleaned up the build process a little.
+
+3. Converted the source files to UTF-8.
+
+4. Added a rudimentary "make check" target.
+
+5. Removed trailing whitespace.
+
+6. Reformatted long (> 80 chars) lines.
+
+7. Fixed some typos.
+
+8. Add [Travis-CI](https://travis-ci.org/) support.
+
+# What remains to be done.
+
+1. See if there are any downstream patches to apply.
+
+2. Add valgrind tests.
+
+3. Add other tests.
+
+4. Release fortune-mod-1.99.2.
+
+5. Fix more typos (reports/pull-requests are welcome.)
+
+6. Consider converting the build system to
+[CMake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMake) or a different build system.
+