Merging Lazarus and FPC

The purpose of this page is to discuss how far Lazarus and FPC should be merged. This isn't a democratic vote but a place for the developers to collect their opinions.

Website

Yes. Avoids user confusion and reduces administration when it's done --FPK 11:26, 15 Jan 2006 (CET)

Yes, but consider something like "1 company, 2 products" - people not interested in GUI stuff (for whatever reason) should be still able to find "their" product easily. --xhajt03 15:22, 15 Jan 2006 (CET)

Yes, general pages the same, development sites different? --Marcov

Forums

Yes. Saves administration work and makes it easier for users to find the right place to ask. --FPK 11:26, 15 Jan 2006 (CET)

If the forums are merged then we need a better forum. The current Lazarus forum has some issues:

• Lot´s of people can´t register
• Bad organization of the topics. You will notice that forums such as Misc or General have a lot more posts then the others. This shows that the topics are badly organized.

--Sekelsenmat 15:23, 21 Jan 2006 (CET)

Bug tracker

Not sure. --FPK 11:26, 15 Jan 2006 (CET)

Good idea. With mantis you can easily define projects and move issues between projects. -- Vincent 14:48, 15 Jan 2006 (CET)

I'd say so - we shouldn't ask users to use two different bug trackers. Furthermore, sometimes a bug which seemed to be related to Lazarus only needs to be re-routed to compiler or RTL. -- xhajt03 15:38, 15 Jan 2006 (CET)

Yes, current FPC system is a kludge anyway. -- Marco

Common core mailing list

No, creates too much noise. But introduce a new list lazarus-fpc-core for people being involved in things affecting both projects. --FPK 11:26, 15 Jan 2006 (CET)

No, but make it possible for more people to post to lazarus-developer list. -- Vincent 14:51, 15 Jan 2006 (CET)

Wiki

Yes, saves administration work --FPK 11:26, 15 Jan 2006 (CET)

Yes -- Vincent 14:49, 15 Jan 2006 (CET)

Releases

No, requires too much coordination, already getting the FPC releases within a reasonable time frame is hard. --FPK 11:26, 15 Jan 2006 (CET)

I think coordinating release engineering is more important than synchronized releases. 99% of the Lazarus users, when given the choice will use the one provided with Lazarus anyway. So let's make it easier to make an all-in-one release Marcov 19:37, 4 Feb 2006 (CET)