[lazarus] Helping with the project

[Dalton Calford]

Hi,

My name is Dalton Calford and I am one of the founding members of the Interbase
Developers Initiative.

With the current upheavels at Inprise in regards to Interbase, alot of
developers are joining us and asking how to help.

One of the other founding members, Jason Wharton, has asked me to contact you to
get your opinion on the porting of his code base to Lazarus.  He has a very
extensive group of components that he releases as binaries to commercial
entities, and as full source to anybody who asks as long as they pay him his
fees when they start making money.
In the past week, in order to become even more friendly to the open source
movement, he has opening started releasing his code on a "trustware" model.

He wants to know how/if it is possible to merge his code base into yours while
still retaining an income from it (he still has a family and mortgage to deal
with).  In the interbase community, his code base is considered the best for
database access.

As to the helping with the lazarus project, I have been directly contacted by 35
different developers whose code is well known in the Delphi community.  They are
all offering to help, as long as they are given some guidence as to what needs
to be addressed.

So I guess what I am asking for is, can the project be helped by throwing more
developers at it, and if so, where and who will coordinate it?  


best regards

Dalton