Re: AUTHORS material (re)started

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:06:46PM +0000, P Kayex wrote:
> Mr Percival, I found this thread while searching around 
> for something that I could possibly help with to 
> contribute to the lily 'community'.

> and saw that no one had replied to it, 
> so I assume this task is still open?

Yes!  Thank you very much for your interest!
I've updated the issue accordingly:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=845

> I have installed the Lilybunto OS onto a 
> VM and seem to have managed to follow instructions to 
> compile (I didn't see any errors) and 
> I can see a THANKS file but not an Authors, anyway..let me know.

If you've compiled the documentation (with "make doc"), then
you've already gone far beyond the requirements for this issue.
:)

First, please do a "git pull -r".  I've just updated the file for
you, so make sure you get this update.

You will be editing this file:
  Documentation/web/basic-authors.itexi

I know the format looks a bit weird, but fundamentally all you
need to care about are the lines like this:
--------------
@item Firstname Lastname:
blah blah blah.
--------------

Your first task is to take the material at the bottom of the file
(marked "OLD MATERIAL"), and move it into the relevant "previous
contributors" list.  If the item includes a website, please check
that the address is still valid; if it isn't, delete the @uref{}
portion.
The lists should be ordered alphabetically by last name.


After that, please send a me patch.  (instructions are listed in
CG 1)

I know this is easy, but it will let us test that everything is
working.  The next steps are only slightly harder.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham