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Re: how to make decisions?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: how to make decisions? |
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Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:44:05 +0200 |
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"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
> Graham Percival wrote Monday, September 03, 2012 1:00 PM
>
>> That proposal became:
>> http://lilypond.org/~graham/gop/gop_4.html
>>
>> I don't know where to go from here. I spend a lot of effort
>> trying to organize such discussions, because I think that LilyPond
>> is a community project. I think that we should encourage people
>> to participate, but telling people "ok, thanks for your work on
>> XYZ, now get lost while the real developers talk about ABC" might
>> discourage people from working.
>
> It did.
No doubt. And I don't want to promote a setup which will essentially
end up as exactly that when viewed honestly.
Trying to empower non-programmers by handing them the decisions over
what the programmers should be achieving is something I just don't see
working out to the best interests of either. The only thing I can think
of for evening out the balance is to make it easier for non-programmers
themselves to bring LilyPond to do what they want it to be doing. That
requires documentation, and it requires moving LilyPond in a direction
where working with and on it with confidence becomes easier.
This kind of empowerment has been the main theme of most of my work on
music functions and Scheme/LilyPond interaction. It is, however,
ongoing work, and I don't think I am doing anybody a favor by keeping it
half-finished.
I don't have good answers with regard to the questions what our policies
should be focusing on and ruling on. And I am totally bad working
according to instructions myself. But I definitely see that many people
can be more productive by having good guidelines to work with.
I am doing the best I can, but I don't really see how I can justly deny
the underlying gist of the characterization "ok, thanks for your work on
XYZ, now get lost while the real developers talk about ABC". And I want
to avoid creating organizational structures that will cause exactly that
impression if I am trying to do serious work according to the best of my
conscience.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands, (continued)
- Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2012/09/03
- Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands, Francisco Vila, 2012/09/04
- Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands, Marc Hohl, 2012/09/03
- Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/09/03
- how to make decisions? (was: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands), Graham Percival, 2012/09/03
- Re: how to make decisions?, David Kastrup, 2012/09/03
- Re: how to make decisions?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/09/03
- Re: how to make decisions?, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/09/06
- Re: how to make decisions?, Janek Warchoł, 2012/09/06
- Re: how to make decisions? (was: [GLISS] differentiatingpre/post/neutral commands), Trevor Daniels, 2012/09/03
- Re: how to make decisions?,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: how to make decisions?, Trevor Daniels, 2012/09/04
- Re: how to make decisions?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/09/04
- Re: how to make decisions?, Trevor Daniels, 2012/09/04
- Re: how to make decisions?, Janek Warchoł, 2012/09/05
- Re: how to make decisions?, Keith OHara, 2012/09/05
- Re: how to make decisions?, Keith OHara, 2012/09/05
- Re: how to make decisions?, Trevor Daniels, 2012/09/05
- Re: how to make decisions?, Keith OHara, 2012/09/05
- Require delimiters to clarify context? [was: how to make decisions?], Trevor Daniels, 2012/09/05
- Re: Require delimiters to clarify context? [was: how to make decisions?], Keith OHara, 2012/09/05