[Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

[Martin]

On 08/03/2010 15:28, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 04:46:57PM -0700, Tom Lisjac wrote:
>    
>> Everyone agrees that Lazarus and FPC are unique, highly capable and
>> excellent in their current releases and it's clear that the project is
>> in a highly advanced state. Volunteers are needed now more then ever
>> to fix bugs and clean up the howto's, code examples and obsolete wiki
>> tutorials. Support funding would also be encouraging to the people
>> that have worked so tirelessly on the IDE and compiler for over a
>> decade.
>>      
> This blurb is copied and paste for every message that asks for something.
>
> It means nothing. No single feature, action or release ever brought in masses of
> new users, funding or code, despite they were always promised.
>
> Today it is a 1.0 label , tomorrow it is GIT, yet the day after it is garbage
> collection, threaded for loops, dynamic linking etc.
>
> And all this discussion and hurrying eats into the real work.
>
>    
[cut a long explanation, about the repeated appearance of this topic, 
and that it (at least in the past) usually leads to nothing....]

Thanks Marco. This post has my full backing. Exactly my opinion.

Martin