Lazarus Season of Code

The Lazarus Season of Code (LSoC) is a project designed to attract students to help developing FPC/Lazarus as well as to implement some tasks which are strategically important, but which would remain unimplemented due to lack of developers. Some tasks will be available only for students, while other tasks may be open as bounties, for anyone to participate.

List of ideas for Tasks

This list is a collection of tasks which may be added to a particular LSoC depending on the priority of the task, available money, available mentors, available students, etc.

Task	Platforms	Skills	Mentor	Value	Comments
Implement a cross-platform API to support complex input methods (japanese, chinese) in the LCL	Win32/64, Gtk2, Qt4, Carbon	?	Dmitry	EUR100	-
Start a Java port of Free Pascal, generating assembler for Jasmin. The compiler should support units, procedures, records, arrays and all numeric data types. The RTL should support WriteLn and ReadLn.	Win32	?	Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho	EUR200	Strategic importance in the long run and testing the viability of such a port
Finish the MIPS port of Free Pascal.	MIPS/Linux	?	?	EUR200	-
Write a Pascal tutorial focused on Lazarus/FPC covering the most important topics: streams, file handling, cross-platform tips, data types, records, arrays, links to the most important rtl/fcl functions, sysutils, etc...	N/A	?	Mattias	EUR100	-
XML Syntax Checker and fix most XML bugs. See: [1] [2]	N/A	?	Mattias?	EUR100	-
Create a table in the wiki mapping all JIL cross-platform PDA APIs to the appropriate API in various PDA operating systems. Also implement about 10% of JIL in the PDA platforms supported by Lazarus/FPC	Windows CE, Android, MaeMo, iPhone	?	Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho	EUR100	-
Fix most database bugs for sdfdataset, sqlitedataset and tdbf.	N/A	?	?	EUR100	-
Fix most bugs regarding documentation display and lhelp.	N/A	?	?	EUR100	-