Better documentation...?
Yes, that would be a perfect candidate for a (rather big) bounty.
To come back to the idea of a possible new structure of a "Lazarus foundation" , should this foundation officially represents the Lazarus project?
The current existing one is "Free Pascal and Lazarus foundation". The idea is to represent both projects.
If not, who is doing this right now?
The developers and active users, as you can see in this forum and in mailing list.
If you want to keep the foundation completely separated from the existing Lazarus developing process and its decision makers, who will decide what to do with possible donations? I think it will be hard to keep both structure completely independent from each other, I think there will be (and there should be) intersections of the decision makers from both - Lazarus project and "The Lazarus foundation" If decisions are transparent and public to the community it could be a good symbiosis.
Yes sure.
I guess you know about decision making in Firebird foundation which is your ideal.
Incidentally, it is the ideal also for Michael Van Canneyt, one of the 3 members of "Free Pascal and Lazarus foundation".
I exchanged mails with him which I should have done earlier. The foundation is not dead and some of the information I myself and Maciej gave is incorrect. I will write a correction tomorrow. Now I am tired ...
Anyway, please use this e-mail address to ask details from Michael V.C. himself.
foundation@freepascal.org
It is listed also here:
https://foundation.freepascal.org/contactIf you were suggesting SW features, I would ask for a patch, first telling you where the relevant code is.
I cannot tell about running a foundation but Michael V.C. can. The biggest problem also there is lack of contributors. Can you please help him?
Please remember that a foundation does not magically turn things into well organized and systematic. That all needs people to work. A foundation is mainly a tool to manage money. As long as your actions do not need (much) money, you can do them easier without a foundation.