[lazarus] What to do

[Cliff Baeseman]

I like lazarus.org also that is my input.

I used to work for the guys that owned Internic. Just plain idiots, I
registered a domain one time and it
was up in ten minutes. I did another one and it took two weeks and 5 phone
calls...

Cliff

-----Original Message-----
From: michael at tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be <michael at tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be>
To: lazarus at miraclec.com <lazarus at miraclec.com>
Date: Saturday, July 17, 1999 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [lazarus] What to do


>
>
>On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Michael A. Hess wrote:
>
>> michael at tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be wrote:
>> >
>> > Cliff or Shane, I think you should put out a class chart in the sense
>> > you (Rational rose) or I proposed (PostScript) and publish it
>> > regularly as a picture on your web-site, maybe you should add the name
>> > of a maintainer to each component.
>>
>> I agree. I know what Shane is working on and what Cliff is working on.
>> I'm working on the dialog stuff and some more events for classes etc.
>> etc. but it would help if the mass of lurkers would know so if they so
>> decide to throw some code in they have an idea whats open.
>>
>> > Since you're gaining momentum (Roaring crowds cheering loudly in the
>> > background, Mexican waves all over the place :) )
>> > I think this is very important.
>>
>> Along those same thoughts of the roaring crowds that is exactly what I
>> am seeing with the amount of members on the mailing list. I think it
>> might be time to setup a real domain for Lazarus. I am willing to host
>> and fund the domain if we can get some agreement on what the name of the
>> domain should be. Any suggestions?
>
>Lazarus.org, of course !
>
>>
>> It is probably a good idea for FreePascal to have a domain as well.
>> There use to be a freepascal.org but that seems to have gone away. I
>> suggest registering it again. I'm willing to do that as well if the FPC
>> people want it.
>
>I _AM_ in the process of re-registering it. For 6 MONTHS already.
>The people at InterNIC are
>
>a) INCREDIBLY Slow
>b) just PLAIN DUMB. If you excuse me the words;
>
>Or they are simply overworked; I'm willing to allow for that, though
>it doesn't explain everything I've been going through. It seems that a
>'domain name registrant change' as it is technically called, is VERY hard.
>Much harder than a simple registration.
>
>Last week friday I was put on hold for 40 minutes. Call from Belgium to the
>USA. At the prices we have here (1-2$ a minute) you can imagine

>
>Anyway, I have good hope we'll get there eventually :-)
>
>Michael.
>
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