Tsoding on Fortran

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@Carltoffel

I’m used to GitLab and GitHub, because I more or less know what I’m doing there. GFortran and GCC have a very confusing and ugly website. I appreciate the simplicity, but it makes it hard for me to understand how and where to start. By the time I get to the point where I’m asked to join mailing lists, I’m completely lost. Maybe it’s because I’m “too young”, but mailing lists just scare me.

You can read the information I resumed here:
https://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/GFortran#contributing

and this very recent message:

GFortran releases

Well, the Oregon State University Open Source Lab is now hosting the GFortran Mattermost instance: https://gfortran-mm.osuosl.org/ Those people made a great job, importing the whole content of the previous instance. One thousand thanks! As stated above by @JerryD : If anyone here would be interested in joining the gfortran developers team, send an email to gfortran@gcc.gnu.org or myself at jvdelisle@gcc.gnu.org.

The best way to get introduced in the GFortran development is to contact @JerryD : he is conscious that younger people (Fortran next generation!) may prefer more modern tools, and that is why he created a Mattermost instance for developers. Well, there are of course other ways to contribute, like maintaining or improving the documentation / communication, that is as important as you have shown. All is made by volunteers with good will… I assure you will be kindly welcome and helped to start. (Note that I am not myself a GFortran developer but I am in close contact with Jerry for a long time and I try to help as I can).

Update: Mattermost is an Open Source alternative to Slack, very very similar! In fact, we used Slack for several years before they removed some free functionalities and we decided to move to Mattermost, first in their Cloud and now hosted in the Oregon university (Mattermost decided recently that free hosting would be ended).