[Gambas-user] Where's the most appropriate place for a scad of questions

[richard terry]

I've only recently installed Gambas2 (after looking at Gambas in its infancy a 
long time ago) and I must say I'm really impressed. Yes, I'm aware I can post 
to this list or the forums.

Some quick background. 

Though a medical doctor by trade, and a self taught programmer since the early 
1980's (cut my teeth on assembler and FORTH, I programmed in VB from VB3-VB6 
for a long period, and wrote a number of apps some of which are still used by 
the commerical organisations I wrote them for back in the late 90's - 
VB/Access based. 

My own apps run here at work (General Practice in Australia) - a medical 
records system written in VB which has been in use now for 10yrs), and I've 
been looking to replace/update them for some time.

I've been involved with gnumed (www.gnumed.net) for a few years, which has 
made only very slow and incremental progress, and upskilled myself on 
postgres and wxPython, where I can pretty much code any complex gui I want by 
hand. Time however has beaten me as my workload is so heavy, so I was 
pleasantly surprised at just how good gambas2 has become, and am tempted to 
start some experimental development in that.

So to the point - not having programmed in VB for 10 years, but being familar 
with that, I've been writing down a number of observations/questions/ as I've 
started to explore gambas, and wondered who/where, I could direct them to.

My experience with lists/forums over the years has been variable, and of 
course, whilst I'm more than happy to post 'in expectation' to the list, 
often ones questions are not answered so I wondered if there was anyone on 
the list who has a deep and extensive knowledge of gambas and who actually 
writes apps for the real world, who would be prepared to field a few 
questions personally via email.

Also, as I've picked up bugs as I've gone, if I persist with gambas, I'd like 
to be able to contribute to the community by bug reporting/suggestions.
I did download the svn, but for some reason couldn't get it to work. I 
wondered how far ahead of the 1.9.90 release in terms of functionality would 
be the SVN code.

My linux distribution (best in the world of course is ARCHLINUX, so I used the 
package from community to install gambas2.

Any comments/help/suggestions appreciated.

Richard