[lazarus] Lazarus road map

[hernan.et at pg.com]

Please let us know when the TODO list, road map or whatever is available. I
would also like to start on gtk2, I believe I need a general direction what
needs to be done. I need this for my GTK+ 2 project using Frame buffer.

Yoyong


                                                                
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From: Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> on 06/11/2003 06:18 PM GMT
                                                                                  
            Mattias Gaertner           To:   lazarus at miraclec.com                 
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                               Subject:      Re: [lazarus] Lazarus road map       
                                                                                  
         06/12/2003 02:18 AM                                                      
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On 11 Jun 2003 10:29:17 -0600
Tom Lisjac <netdxr at adelphia.net> wrote:

>
> > I can start a ToDo text. Any suggestions for the
> > format?
>
> Package or Task Summary line
> status:
>         needed, wanted, thinking_about_doing, working_on,
>         working_on_need_help, coded_but_needs_testing,
>         completed_needs_documentation, completed_and_available... etc

ok, I will start one.


> > We need more developers.
>
> It might be easier to attract developers if there is a list of things
> that need developing. The old Lazarus site used to have a page of
> components and their status. This was good but was probably a lot of
> work to initially build and maintain.

Indeed.


> The forum capabilities of the existing Lazarus site are excellent but
> don't appear to be used very much. For example the last posting in the
> Developer News section is dated September 08, 2002. Could this be an
> area to post ToDo items and make announcements about converted code?
> This way, the existing developer group wouldn't have to spend their time
> formatting and maintaining the list.

Yes.


> > Did you really expect that everyone post their 'hooray' to the list?
>
> Everyone? No, but even one response on or off list would have encouraged
> me to keep working on it. A hooray is good once in a while... but next
> time I will post a shorter announcement. Sorry if this was annoying.

It was not annoying. I didn't wrote my hooray, because I had already flooded
the list for the day. And if I would stop anything, just because I didn't
get response, lazarus would not the lazarus you know it.


Mattias

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