[fpc-devel] 134 open merge requests - is that normal?

[robert rozee]

> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2026 at 12:16 AM
> From: "Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel" <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org>
> Who defines a)? Do you have a list?
> Who guarantees b) for all platforms?

it does not matter who defines the list - if you are completely paralyzed by indecision, pick numbers from a hat. and there are no guarantees, this is a roll of the dice to try and push forward, if it all goes to custard you've just wasted a month of time, while pales in comparison to the elapsed time since the release of 3.2.2.

> Who does generate the release candidate?

a competent person? or is part of the problem that there is no competent person(s) in the team who are capable of generating a release candidate?! in that case, lets just all give up and go home now; 3.2.2 is as good as it is ever going to get.

from an article i was reading recently:

"  ... [a notable researcher] writes about effort miscalibration, which
  comes from the psychological concept of “affective forecasting error”. 
  This is our human instinct to over estimate how hard something is
  going to be. We’re basically not very good at predicting our future
  emotional state, and so we often avoid taking action because we assume
  that it’s going to take a lot of effort.

  That’s why you often put off [administrative tasks], because you assume
  that’s going to require way more energy than watching another episode
  of the TV show you’ve been binging lately. Except that if you think
  about the times you pushed through that initial effort hurdle, you
  probably actually had a great time [creating a release candidate] and
  afterwards thought “we should do that more often”.
"
it seems that the whole FPC project/team is suffering from the above. see also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_forecasting


cheers,
rob   :-)