On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de> wrote: > Now that is cynical! > Telling those who do not know anything about what > has been developed over the last years > to write the documentation theirselfs.
No, my point is that I will not continue doing it. Somebody else must take charge. If nobody wants to do it, then bad luck for you. I have done my share for a feature I don't even use myself. I added the define + basic documentation for it and applied some patches from Michl to fix its bugs. Are you saying that I should feel guilty now for not maintaining it further. This is how voluntary open source works. Basically people scratch their own itches. If somebody feels this DisableUTF8RTL feature is important then he improves it. If nobody feels so then it will not be improved. Simple as that. > Not the developers who know what they changed > and what they had in mind when doing so should > document their work but those who just use it. Yes, it is already documented here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_with_FPC3.0_without_UTF-8_mode However the future maintainer should add more examples and explain how to solve problems that come up. > For whom is the documentation meant at all? > Why not drop it and everything is fine? > The code is there, just read it! Exactly! Why don't you do so? You and me are in the same position. Neither of us gets paid for improving Lazarus. Both of us can improve things we feel important. Tell me, why don't you improve the feature you apparently consider important? > I think with this attitude the whole project is doomed to fail. Right. What about your attitude? Why do you attack people who actually created some substance for this project? Why don't you attack the people who did not create any substance? It would be more logical IMO. Juha -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
