[fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

[Sven Barth]

On 15.03.2015 15:11, vfclists . wrote:
> I think the main FPC developers need to realize that sooner or later
> they are allow going to retire from FPC development and move onto other
> things, or just retire form working life,  or finally to the great happy
> retirement home in the sky, and a new generation will have to take over
> FPC development. They have to plan and workout a succession, and that
> succession will have to involve a new generation of programmers who
> learned different ways of working,  and that more or less involves Git
> and a whole lot of other tools.
>
> Somehow all this indifference to Git bothers me because it seems they
> are ignoring the greater realities of life. If a new generation are
> going to get involved with FPC and Lazarus development, and the main
> developers are really concerned with all the time and effort they put
> into this great product not going to waste when they retire then they
> ought to reconsider the indifference or aversion to Git. This is what
> the aversion or indifference to Git signifies me. It doesn't mean that I
> don't think they don't have any plans for how the project will be
> continued in the long term future, but there seems to an indifference in
> the appeal the working culture has for newer generation. They need
> foster a passion and a commitment (fanboy fanaticism may be the right
> word) to Lazarus and FPC in a new generation.

Users that want to be developers for FPC should first and foremost love 
the language. What backend we use to manage the code should not be 
important then. There are even successful projects out there that still 
use CVS, so don't come with "if it's not Git then no one will come".

Regards,
Sven