[Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Marc Santhoff schrieb:
> Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 16:01 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
>> William Oliveira Ferreira schrieb:
>>> Well, i think all pascal developers should do something about it and, 
>>> all the fpc/lazarus team is doing a wonderfull work!
>> +-1
>>
>> Yes, much time is spent on the *code*, on mass instead of quality.
>> No, the *documentation* is in an horrible state.
> 
>>From my view this is not absolutely true. There in fact is a lot of
> documentation, but it's often a problem to find it. Most things are
> already available in the wiki or the generated docs.

I do not only mean general information, but information about the added
features, that can be provided only by the inventors of these features.

The team presents itself as "we are the greatest", and assumes that 
every user will understand immediately these great ideas, casted into 
cryptic code. Everybody else, be a Lazarus user already, or be somebody 
interested in learning more about Lazarus, is left alone in the rain.

Is it really required to file an bug report, for every undocumented 
item, in order to get more information about it? Questions in the 
mailing list about such items are typically never answered, and 
according marks in the documentation are silently dropped. Is this how 
the team expects Lazarus be ever documented? Let somebody write 
something, it will most probably be correct? Reality proves almost the 
opposite: a lot of false guesses in the docs, which obviously never had 
been verified :-(

DoDi