[Lazarus] Bashing the developers

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 09/04/16 18:14, Juha Manninen wrote:
[...]
> So, here are the rules:

> 1. You can ask technical questions to help you solve your programming problems.
> 2. If you start to contibute yourself (very unlikely) then you have
> right to criticise the development process, although a decent person
> would not do it much even then.

>From my own perspective, of a casual user (that did not contribute anything meaningful so far)
this seems a bit overboard: you'll end up having only 'pats on the back' around,
and no more of a bit more critical input. 

Yes critics can be tiring and I can see your point that they are... 
(aside from, whether they know, what they are talking about, or not)
but without them, or if you ignore them by default, you'll never get 'the bigger picture' input.
You will only get the view of the convinced ones. 

Such is the nature of this trade, that when lots of people are required to focus hard on what they are doing,
to get decent results in their chosen part of the field, switching contexts is hard. 
For people less trained, it is even harder.
(obligatory xkcd : https://xkcd.com/309/ [there likely was another one, more fitting, that I can't find quickly now])

> 3. Attacks against FPC/Lazarus developers must go to your personal
> blog somewhere. There already is an infamous blog against CodeTyphon.
> You can write something similar against Lazarus.
> 

Hmmm... 
I read this mailing list / newsgroup (through gmane) daily.
I do not appreciate having to go to some obscure web space blog, where the author of a post has omnipotent
powers to shut discussion on a topic [as is the case with blogs] when he wouldn't like the comments
he would (inevitably) get if he did that. 
At least here, there is not just you who can, and want to, rebuke the likes of J.H.

> Juha
> 

-L.