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This is a list of things I hope to work on the coming time, so you can see I have great ideas. ;-)
 
This is a list of things I hope to work on the coming time, so you can see I have great ideas. ;-)
 
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* Improve Lazarus release building process:
* converting [[EpikWiki to MediaWiki conversion|epikwiki pages to media wiki]]
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**<strike>create a tool for automating building Lazarus releases. The current process requires me to login on several build machines, switch to the correct tag and start the release building. I hope to improve this using [http://xp-dev.com/wiki/133998/Homepage BLR].</strike> Lazarus 0.9.30.2 and 0.9.30.4 and its release candidates were built with BLR.
* update fpdoc on lazarus-ccr, so that the lcl pages link to the rtl pages.
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** Add md5sum checking to confirm that all uploads have been done correctly.
* improve finddefaultbrowser on windows, that reads the registry for the default browser.
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* create a tool to select revisions to be merged to the fixes branch from the [http://www.freepascal.org/~vincents/avail.log available revision list]
 
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** I started this, source is in svn at http://svn.xp-dev.com/svn/vsnijders-merge-tool/
 
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* make deb snapshots and put them in a lazarus-unstable repository
;Some things I am considering
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** after testing by users, those debs can be moved to the existing lazarus-testing repository
* creating snapshots for other targets (e.g. linux rpms or for macosx).
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* create a test suite, that can be run unattended, for example after a nightly build or before a release.
 
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** make test scripts with [http://www.autohotkey.com autohotkey] on windows.
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** <strike>automate it all with fpcunit</strike>
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** upload the testresults on a [http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/testresults/results.xml html page], so that there is a kind of dash board
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** find alternatives for autohotkey on *nix, maybe [http://code.google.com/p/autokey/ autokey]. Another alternative [http://wizzup.org/simba/ Simba], written with fpc for both Windows and Linux.
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* find out how to setup mediawiki multilingual
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* [http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=6373#6373 improve language detection]
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* create documentation (stubs) for lcl/widgetset. Here details for implementing a widgetset interface can be added, such as assumptions on what the LCL expects. It can help porting the LCL to a new widget set.
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* creating a source based installer for win32. User can select packages and if they want to have rtl with debug info.
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* write a database backend for FPCBots markov response generator to replace the in-memory stringlists and file persistant storage.
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* Improve help integration in the IDE
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** easier installation of local help
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** make local version of IDE help
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** make help browser ready (robust enough) for use in big ide
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** better search (port Lucene?), OTOH chm search works fine
  
 
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If you have suggestions or comments, feel free to add them to the [[User_talk:Vincent/todo_list|talk page]].

Latest revision as of 21:02, 3 April 2012

This is a list of things I hope to work on the coming time, so you can see I have great ideas. ;-)

  • Improve Lazarus release building process:
    • create a tool for automating building Lazarus releases. The current process requires me to login on several build machines, switch to the correct tag and start the release building. I hope to improve this using BLR. Lazarus 0.9.30.2 and 0.9.30.4 and its release candidates were built with BLR.
    • Add md5sum checking to confirm that all uploads have been done correctly.
  • create a tool to select revisions to be merged to the fixes branch from the available revision list
  • make deb snapshots and put them in a lazarus-unstable repository
    • after testing by users, those debs can be moved to the existing lazarus-testing repository
  • create a test suite, that can be run unattended, for example after a nightly build or before a release.
    • make test scripts with autohotkey on windows.
    • automate it all with fpcunit
    • upload the testresults on a html page, so that there is a kind of dash board
    • find alternatives for autohotkey on *nix, maybe autokey. Another alternative Simba, written with fpc for both Windows and Linux.
  • find out how to setup mediawiki multilingual
  • improve language detection
  • create documentation (stubs) for lcl/widgetset. Here details for implementing a widgetset interface can be added, such as assumptions on what the LCL expects. It can help porting the LCL to a new widget set.
  • creating a source based installer for win32. User can select packages and if they want to have rtl with debug info.
  • write a database backend for FPCBots markov response generator to replace the in-memory stringlists and file persistant storage.
  • Improve help integration in the IDE
    • easier installation of local help
    • make local version of IDE help
    • make help browser ready (robust enough) for use in big ide
    • better search (port Lucene?), OTOH chm search works fine

If you have suggestions or comments, feel free to add them to the talk page.