I think the "code bank" / tutorial staff belongs into its own thread.I think that it would be nice to have a section or board to show off personal projects we have (commercial programs, open source, full applications, letc) and ask for advice or whatever.
"show off" definitely points too app gallery. (Though admittedly that may in itself need more prominence....)
Thanks for the link. I think that the Application Gallery is more suited for fully operational and mature projects. My suggestion is more intended for new projects that may require advice, specially intended for the first stages of development, concept design, architecture, user interface design, etc ... New projects on early stages can benefit from comments and insights from other users that can contribute to the development itself. Older projects may benefit from discovering wrong ideas and may help to redesign parts of the project.
That needs to be a bit more detailed.....
Many of the issues, that one will discover when planing a project are covered by other boards. And for those missing a "my project" board might be a misnomed "general" board.....
There are technical topics like:
- GUI design (in which order to place cancel and ok buttons, to make them intuitive)
- Code design or layout / planing which design patterns to use ....
Both of them have no dedicated boards yet. They are not specific to programming in Pascal, but they might still be ok. The bigger issue is, that I really have seen no demand of them at all. Maybe a bit of code design somewhere once, but as long as it is that low frequented, I think it does fine in the general board.
Anyway neither of the above two would fall into "my project"
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The other use I can think off is to ask: What should I add to my project. Should I do this feature or that feature, or does someone have an idea for a feature.....
But that would be neither Pascal related, no Lazarus, nor Fpc related.
And it would fill the "recent posts" with lots of completely off topic messages.
I do not think that this forum should be used for such discussions of other projects.
So what else should the "my project" board contain?--
The best I could see is a need for a place where you could say, I started FOO, are there fellow Pascal programmers that want to contribute, please join me at http://......
However the trick would be, that this would be one off announcements. I.e. this would need to be a board, where you can only post a new topic, but can not reply to any existing post.
It would require people to have their own forums. So that might in turn reduce traffic on such a board to a trickle.