OK, I updated the FAQ for this.

Marc

There's on info missing on the "Howto participate" page. In section 4b a line

-Fu/your.lazarus.root/lcl/units/YourToolkit

has to be added, where YourToolkit may be gtk, win32 or qt.

Stefan

Does Lazarus' website already have a Portuguese version?

I want to translate this, but I just want to be sure I am not working on something someone already did.

Rafael

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you are working on a new webpage?
and all translations will have to be done again?

then why don't you move lazarus to sourceforge?
i think there are really some advantages in doing this (perhaps it can help to get some more developers) i would like to know what you and the other developers think about that

yours

satan

I wish to get involved intoa bit of development. But the sad thing is my lack of experience in developing components in Delphi itself. I may have derived some components for my own work from Raize Inc. Hence the intricacies involved seem to be overwhelming. In fact, I badly need a set of well functioning IB compos. Any suggestions to cut my teeth into lazarus?

regards

Nataraj

A Portuguese version does already exist. If you chech the language selection box at the bottom of the menu on the Home page you will see it is listed. Not all pages were translated but most were.

I will be in the process of designing a new web site in the next couple of weeks. I hope to add some features such as a forum, opinion polls, etc. At that time all of the translations will need to be performed again and your help will be welcomed. :-)

Speaking of SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal ???

Certainly, my web returned to SourceForge today.
Still it is finalizing.
Available of the entire world: http://www.e2s.2y.net

Some suggestions:

- IDE documentation
+ features: What is already working, differences to Delphi/Kylix, Wishlist ...
+ document the code itself. For example: listing the class hierachy and creating READMEs what can be found in what file. Or just try to understand the IDE code, and write some notes for every source that is difficult to understand, so that the next developer feel easier to get involved.

- LCL documentation
- Explain every component in a few sentences. Where they can be found, and how to use them (examples).

- IDE development
- Change Syntax Language
- Makefile hilighting
- Shell hilighting
- Find in files
- Message Dialog Editor
- Backup Project to dir
- Project Dependencies
- compare files (see Moleskine)
- beautify code
- resource editor
- guessing unclosed begin..end blocks
- Macro (see Delphi) Start: Ctrl-Shift-R, End: Ctrl-Shift-R, Play: Ctrl-Shift-P
- Incremental Search: Ctrl-E (see Delphi)
- Colors for Object inspector

- LCL development
- bugfixes
- TMenu
- graphic streaming
- TCustomGrid, TDrawGrid, TStringGrid, ...

Mattias

Satan wrote

you are working on a new webpage?

Just to give it a new look. A new coat of paint.

and all translations will have to be done again?

Since many of the facts and details will have changed due to the age of some of the information new translations will be required.

then why don't you move lazarus to sourceforge?

Why?

i think there are really some advantages in doing this (perhaps it can help to get some more developers)

And exactly what would those advantages be???

Currently the source for Lazarus is stored on the FPC servers. This way nightly source snapshots are created in the same way that FPC snapshots are created. This also means that it is then available on all of the same ftp mirrors where FPC is available.

The web site is used for information, news, bug reports, etc. Also nightly builds are done right here in the same office as the Lazarus server so updates in this fashion are easy.

i would like to know what you and the other developers think about that

The new site will also have a forum section and opinion polls section. The point of sourceforge was to make a space available for individuals that want to run a project and do not have anyplace to actually host the project. We do.

As to attracting developers, I have given up on worring about that one. In the years since this project started the number of people registered on this mailing list has always hovered around 300. Yet out of that 300 less than 10 are ever involved with development. Out of that 10 maybe 4 are regular contributors. Out of the people involved with this project Shane and myself are the only ones that have been around from the very beginning.

Besides at one point I even tried to run sourceforge as our user interface. It wasn't well received and didn't work that well.