[fpc-devel] Systems fair

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Sat, 3 Dec 2005, schreef Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:

> On 11/24/05, Peter Vreman <peter at freepascal.org> wrote:
> > > I think other people are encouraged to build FPC related websites
> > > if they
> > > can't help the freepascal site directly.
> >
> > Giving ideas doesn't help. We need people to do the work. We can't
> > extended/debug fpc itself and rewrite a website at the same time.
> 
> Ok, even if outside websites about free pascal help more then working
> on free pascal website directly, why don't you make it possible for
> people to see the website code and submit patches for it?

We did add the Wiki for this purpose, and are looking into ways to 
increase user contributions to it, but it should be a controlled system, 
i.e. we don't want people modifying the home page etc.

Submitting patches is and has always been possible, the whole website is 
in svn, http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/html .

If you need more permissions on the community site, i.e. change stuff, 
write content, translation, moderator please say so.

> This way the developers can focus on coding the compiler and others
> that wish to improve the website can do so.

Realising this means we means to concentrate more on the web site, and 
a lot more, only after the functionality is there you get the benefits.

> I'd specially like this on Lazarus website.

That is another issue that Lazarus people are also looking at.

Greetings,

Daniël