He didn’t contact the Lazarus team because he thought it would be unreasonable to demand that they move the hosting site.
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The Lazarus project has lost at least one good programmer because Gitlab bans innocent people.
Allowing that there are users in countries that shall not be named, do you really think there aren't already workarounds in place?
If the project has lost good people it's because you're messing things up by thinking you can solve problems of this type without communicating effectively with the core team.
MarkMLl
Do you think that I haven’t had a discussion with martin_fr About this very serious problem already ?
He said that someone has to volunteer to do the workaround and be reliable. Even if someone does submit bugs and patches on the behalf of others the excluded person might not be given credit for their work and that’s not fair.
It’s not exactly clear why the project can’t be moved to another website that doesn’t ban developers from certain countries. He mentioned it being a lot of work to move it and I really don’t know what other hosting options are available. There is not enough manpower to maintain a website themselves.
I just think it’s ironic that some not so enlightened people have come up with a mythology Casting me as some sort of evil monster that eats newbies alive whilst pascal developers that we need are literally being
banned from gitlab and giving up on contributing !! If anyone wishes to actually talk to the developer who got banned I can introduce you. {you don’t even need an account, it’s super duper easy to get to where he is } I’ll also add that this fellow possesses an extraordinary amount of patience and was willing to jump through hoops and put in extra effort to try to help project. Not many people are willing to do that. Does anyone care enough to actually go talk to him? Anyone?
I, for one, do not have dark fantasies about your intentions. Like many, I suspect, I have better, more constructive things to do with my time!
I’m glad to know that you’re sensible