[fpc-other] Re: fpc-other Digest, Vol 62, Issue 1

[Jonas Maebe]

On 07 Oct 2012, at 12:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> Jonas Maebe wrote:
>> On 06 Oct 2012, at 23:17, Tomas Hajny wrote:
>>> To be fair, it's probably useful to mention that the example forum prepared by Peter should be better compared to the forum we currently provide on FPC pages (community.freepascal.org) rather than NNTP newsgroups, etc., which we do not provide at the moment anyway.
>> He unsubscribed from all FPC lists immediately after he sent his last message.
> 
> Highly regrettable, but at least it happened /before/ all of the mailing lists etc. were transitioned to a system which the core project maintainers didn't understand and might not be in control of.

I don't think he ever insisted on that, and even if he did, that would never have happened. He was offering to help, not threatening a hostile takeover. As Tomas said, his proposal would have been a good candidate for replacing the broken community site.


Jonas