Re: improving our contributing tools and workflow

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janek Warchoł" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "LilyPond Development Team" <address@hidden>; "David Kastrup" 
<address@hidden>; "Joseph Wakeling" <address@hidden>; "Graham 
Percival" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: improving our contributing tools and workflow
> >
> > Good luck.  Let me give a Graham-style warning.  Don't invest any more 
> > time
> > and effort initially than the amount you can discard without problem. 
> > That's
> > to say - don't put months of work with the risk that the other 
> > contributors
> > won't accept the change and all that valuable work is junked.

> This sounds like you're not going to participate in this.  Do i
> understand correctly?  It also sounds very discouraging to me.

> Janek

I don't see why you would get that impression.  I will participate as usual, 
although noting that my summer vacation ends this weekend.  I was simply 
reiterating something that Graham said to me on a number of occasions - 
don't assume that the work you do will be accepted - it's always possible 
that anything done on a collaborative project won't be.  Patches are 
criticised, changed and occasionally junked, and the same can apply to 
proposals for changes in tools and processes - so don't become too committed 
and expend more work than you can afford to lose.  Ever.

--
Phil Holmes