[fpc-devel] utf-8 package in Free Pascal

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Alexander Klenin wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 08:48, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>> There is, again, a continuum between careful development and stangation.
>>> While acknowledging great work that FPC team has done on the former,
>>> I'd venture to say that is came uncomfortably close to the latter.
>>
>> I'd venture to disagree.
>>
>> Attached is a small graph from the bugtracker activity.
>> As you can see, the bugfix rate remains constant, which refutes
>> 'stagnation'. We do work, even if it is not so 'visible'.
>
> As I said, I did not ever deny you work, of course you do.
> Still, "steady bugfixing" and "dymanic evolution" are not quite the same,
> although related.
>
>> Now, to counter the perception of stagnation, you can help:
>> Please help us working on fppkg
>
> Looking at the bugtracker, I found a single non-assigned issue #18321,
> which talks about some "webdesign" package I know nothing about.
> So I where can I look at the todo-list?
>
>> Slowly, we (mainly Joost, in fact) are converting the FPC packages to this
>> new mechanism, fixing bugs as we go along. You can help by testing this, and
>> converting more packages to the new fppkg.
>
> Perhaps I can take care of a single package -- for example, numlib improvement
> was discussed recently on the forum. However, I am afraid my work will
> be rejected again as was the case with fpdoc.

Basing an opinion on 1 occurrence - however painful - is not very scientific :-)

The amount of patches being rejected is a small minority. But yes, it sometimes
happens.

> So I'd consider working on numlib (+ math unit, which is obviously
> closely related),
> if I'd get either commit access or somebody who will timely commit my patches.

You should contact Marco Van De Voort, he currently looks after numlib.

Michael.