Re: mentorship

[Keith OHara]

Kevin Barry <barrykp <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> > It depends on which part of LilyPond you want to help with as to the
> > availability of people to help you. Is there a particular skill-set, set
> > of issues or area of LilyPond you are particularly interested in?
> 
> Thank you for responding. I would like to be able to contribute code to 
the
> project but I'm not really a programmer (I'm a music academic). I worked
> through some chapters of SICP in the past, so I have a rudimentary
> understanding of ... the first few chapters of SICP. I would like to learn
> more, if that's something that would help. Otherwise I will help any way
> that might be needed. I don't have any specific goals other than
> contributing somehow and maybe learning more about programming along the
> way.
> 
> Kevin
> 


Given that you know a lot about how various kinds of printed music 
are supposed to look, and have an interest in how the program works,

I suggest you watch for interesting bug-reports, follow the resolutions,
and compile lilypond and test the patches if you can set up a computer
to do that.

Often we have enhancement requests
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1503
that turn out not to be completely wise
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4222

Sometimes the main question is one of how to design a feature to be useful
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1321
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3279