Re: Lilypond store?

[Stewart Holmes]

> I suggest that you start a discussion thread on mutopia's mailing lists: 
> If
> you have constructive ideas on how to create an archive of high-quality
> public domain notes, then I would strongly recommend you to use your ideas 
> to
> improve mutopia; if that's not possible, use mutopia as a base for 
> creating
> such an archive (i.e., fork the mutopia project).

Unfortunately I don't really have constructive ideas how to improve it; now 
there's a fairly large volume of work on there, it becomes quite a large 
task to tidy the whole lot up. I propose to start from scratch, and only 
accept scores of a high quality. Additionally, people will be more motivated 
to do so, due to a potential return on their investment of time.

Now I know that Lilypond is Open Source, and a very fine piece of software 
at that, as are many other open source projects. But I believe that there 
comes a point when the quality of open source becomes hard to regulate, 
especially when everything is free. Take the example of Lilypond and 
sponsorship; people are asked to help pay the costs towards development... 
which, in my opinion, helps to keep the quality high.

Phew, that was a bit rambly,
Stewart