[fpc-pascal] Preview: New Website layout

[Tomas Hajny]

On 2026-09-02 22:21, Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Op 2-9-2026 om 21:55 schreef Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal:

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>> When we have the 6-monthly releases, we'll have something to announce 
>> regularly. Then we can reconsider a news section.
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>> Until that miracle comes to pass: in FPC the news section is 
>> counterproductive, the evidence of that has been staring our users in 
>> the face for ~20 years.
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> I disagree, you are basically killing the official communication 
> channel with the widest reach, which doesn't require subscriptions or 
> sorting through systems with a lot of content (and mostly not 
> authoritative content) like forum and wiki.

Well, while having a news section would be nice, it's equally true that 
it makes no sense if it isn't maintained and unless somebody volunteers 
to ensure keeping it updated (meaning - actively searching for news 
worth publishing there on e.g. monthly basis), we may expect that the 
situation we've had up to now doesn't improve (and indeed, news section 
with no updates is worse than no news section at all). However, Marco's 
comment about the number of commits not necessarily providing real 
information may be true as well. What about extending it with e.g. the 
last three commit messages for the compiler directory (statically 
updated on daily basis and accompanied with a link to the gitlab page 
providing the latest details dynamically)? Or maybe three messages for 
the compiler directory and three commit messages for packages? Like:

git log -n 3 main -- compiler

and

git log -n 3 main -- packages

Tomas