[fpc-other] Fork

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 22.10.2010 09:08, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> Op 2010-10-22 03:41, Travis Siegel het geskryf:
>> personally, if I wanted to do something major with fpc, I'd not bother  
>> trying to get it integrated to the main branch, I'd spawn my own  
>> project, call it something else, and make it clear that it comes from  
> 
> It seems more and more people are thinking like that. This seems to be true
> in the Lazarus project as well. This should raise some alarm bells for the
> FPC and Lazarus project members, but they seem to be purposely oblivious to
> this fact.

It would be great to have some forks, then some people only creating
mailing list traffic could finally start coding.

> There seems to be something majorly wrong with how these
> projects are managed. I blame it on the "god complex" factor, but that's
> just me speculating.

Don't worry, we know this for years.
- "If the FPC team doesn't do what I want I use software XY"
- FPC team: "Fine, do so"
- "Then I fork FPC"
- FPC team: "Fine, do so"
- *silence*