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Introduction

Need a particular feature? Set a price here, giving a short description, your name and email address. Hopefully, one or more people will contact you and you can arrange the terms of this development work.

Currently, Lazarus depends on volunteers to implement everything on it. Recently Lazarus popularity has increased a lot, and many commercial projects are being developed with it. The idea behind the Bounties is not to substitute the current Mantis bug system, where work will continue normally. The idea is to provide a new development mechanism where commercial application developers can receive professional support and at the same time be able to contribute back to the community.

Examples:

Make Lazarus hello world work on PamOS 5 Garnet. $1000 Contact myemail@domain.com
Add new component. $200 Contact myemail@domain.com

It is also possible to ask the possible developers to give a budget:

Examples:

Implement a new feature. Please make a budget Contact myemail@domain.com

Multi-platform bounties

FPC grammar

Creation and support of grammar FPC in notation EBNF in meta-language GOLD Meta-Language ( http://www.devincook.com/goldparser/grammars/index.htm ). The grammar should include all opportunities of language: interfaces, comments, instructions of the compiler, all announcements, keywords, etc. >1000$. Contact xayam@yandex.ru

Optimizations for FPC/Lazarus

Two bounties, totally $100 for speed optimizations for FPC/Lazarus are described on my web page http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/mricron/bounty/. Martin Friebe won one of these (for changing the code, not the compiler) and donated the $50 to the Lazarus paypal account.

IDE Enhancements

1.) If a path is added in the Compiler-Options of a project then add the path as a relative path instead of an absolute path. $20

2.) If in the MessageView the sentence "Can't find unit XYZ" is displayed, it should be possible to doubleclick onto the word "XYZ" and this would open the "FindInFiles" dialog. $20

Contact: sam_solver_AT_yahoo(dot)com

Windows bounties

Solving the bugs ~~0009589~~, ~~0009496~~ and 0008703. R$25,00. <antoniog12345 at hotmail.com>

Gtk bounties

Fix bug - $10

http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=11906 Contact http://www.wordwebsoftware.com/contact.html

Fix bugs on Gtk 2 IDE and Interface - $200

$200.00 US to anyone or group that gets the IDE to use gtk2 and to compile programs for GTK2 without major GUI bugs - both should work. The award of the bounty will be determined by votes from the mailing list. The list will first vote if the IDE and programs work and then on which person or group should receive the bounty.

I didn't post the bounty, but I would like to suggest at least the following bug fixes:
- ~~Right-click bug: http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=7714~~
- ~~SynEdit performance issue: http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=7717~~
- ~~Main menu shortcuts: http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=7765~~
- ~~If you minimize the IDE it only minimizes the main window, not the other ones. This is the most annoying for me: http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=8834~~

Windows CE bounties

None

Symbian bounties

RTL for Symbian phones - $1000

Create a RTL for Symbian phones (FPC for ARM already exists).

Include a very simple GUI app (like this one for PocketPC).
Needed for Symbian UIQ 2 and 3 at least.
Bounty $1000, open for negotiation if Series 60/80/90 supported.
Contact bounty (at) ccrdu.de.
- Volunteers found and in contact!

Carbon bounties

Qt bounties

None

fpGUI bounties

None

Closed bounties

These are examples of successfully concluded bounties.

GTK2 clipping rect error

Paul Ishenin earned $50 for fixing a bug with GTK2 (Clipping rect of newly created bitmap was invalid). He then donated these funds to the Lazarus PayPal account. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12026

Small Fix for Linux x86_64 IDE

Vincent earned $50 US for discovering why Linux x86_64 caused the IDE to report an Access Violation when opening the MRIcron project. This bug was also reported on Mantis (http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=9216).

Carbon Components

Tombo earned $600 US for developing new Carbon components including TSpinEdit, TFloatSpinEdit, TSpeedButton

Tombo earned $50.00 US for extending LazRGBGraphics to support the QT widgetset - offered by rorden at gwm.sc.edu

Small Windows Bugs

Jesús earned $40 US for fixing a bug where copying images with the edit/copy caused all pixels with the color shown in the bottom-left corner to appear black (http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/mricron/bounty/)

Apache modules - €300

Apache modules header translation and basic example. Awarded to Sekelsenmat.

FPC and Apache Modules

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 Contact: sam_solver_AT_yahoo(dot)com
-===  Convert HTML Component to Lazarus $500 US===
-Convert Dave Baldwin's HTML component for Delphi to Lazarus.  It is mostly changing the messaging, but I don't have any time left to do it (I got a semi-working version going but with AV's).  The public domain code is now available from www.pbear.com. Maybe it is worth more than $500. Contact brett at getdata.com.
-: What is the target OS, widget set? [[User:Vincent|Vincent]] 11:16, 25 June 2008 (CEST)
-:: The 2 main targets are Windows and MacOS, although it shouldn't matter if standard LCL messaging is used.  In the attempt I did I did use a cheat unit called DelphiCompt though.
-: As far as I can see, it links some .obj files and [http://community.freepascal.org:10000/bboards/message?message_id=235936&forum_id=24086 I'm unsure fpc can handle the .obj file format] --[[User:Legolas|Legolas]] 13:42, 26 June 2008 (CEST)
-:: The obj's are not required. They are part of a zip feature (where you can view html's in zips), but this functionality is not required.  Sorry I did not make that clear. There are some issues with images eg gif/png/bmp - but I believe lazarus is sorting them out, so they might have been resolved since I last tried (about 1 year ago).
-: I assume that compiling with NoGDIPlus is okay, since GDIPlus is a Windows DLL. Also, unit HtmlUN2 uses the Windows-only ActiveX unit and contains quite a bit of Intel assembly, which would have to be Pascal-ized to run on Mac PowerPC's. Offhand this looks more like a $5000 job. --[[User:Phil|Phil]]
-:: NoGDIPlus is OK.  In fact I would remove all GDI stuff anyway due to it's platform specific nature.  The ActiveX in HtmlUN2 is trivial as is the asm.  The asm are simply for faster string operation functions and faster maths operations - easily replaced with normal (existing) calls (Dave Baldwin's older versions of the code had neither ActiveX or the asm, and can be supplied if required).  The main problem is the messaging and the graphics.
 ==Windows bounties==