[Lazarus] Release 1.0, part 2

[Florian Klaempfl]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> 2009/11/29 Vincent Snijders <vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl>:
>> As Florian noted, Lazarus needs developers more than users.
> 
> 
> And as I have stated over and over. With new users come new
> contributors. I know I started as a user with no intention of
> contributing. But after a while I saw Lazarus and parts of FPC not
> that scary and managed to supply a few patches or features. Without me
> being a users first, those contributions would not have occurred.
> 
> And yes, for the 100x time I know that not all users are contributors,
> but it does increase the chances of contributions. Do you honestly
> want to deny those possible contributions.
>

My point is: people defining the quality of software by its version
number will never be valuable contributors for an OSS project, they even
don't understand OSS.