2009/11/29 Florian Klaempfl <[email protected]>: > > Being honest, should an OSS project care about users looking at version > numbers? The most important thing for an OSS project are contributors,
And by preventing users form experimenting with FPC & Lazarus, to see if it fits there needs, you are reducing the chances of getting contributors. I know users <> contributors, but it increases the changes greatly. I started using Lazarus and FPC, and only as a user - no intentions of contributing. By your standards, I have beaten all odds, as I have contributed quite a few times to both FPC and Lazarus. So if I did not start off as a users, I would never have ended up contributing. > Do you really want such people using lazarus :)? Probably not, but the problem is, they spread FUD, causing other users to not even bother trying FPC or Lazarus. > It took FPC also eight years to reach 1.0 and it was clearly feature > driven: TP compatibility as far as possible. And thus far Lazarus I believe is some 10 years old and still no clear sign of reaching v1.0. Bumping up the version number will not affect how current Lazarus developers work. They will continue as normal. The only benefit is that other users will perceive Lazarus as more stable now, and give it a try. There really is no down side in this, so I don't know why there is such a resistance. You of all people should also be happy if Lazarus attracts more users. With the tight relationship between Lazarus and FPC, FPC will also gain more users and possible contributors. There is simply no down side to this!! -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
