Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

[Tim McNamara]

Criminy on a crutch, wow.

I'm sorry to say it but there are an awful lot of hurdles to get over  
in learning to use LilyPond and then even more in trying to  
contribute to it. I think I see why there are fewer contributor than  
Graham and Patrick etc. would like:  being a contributor comes with a  
learning curve that many of us just do not have time to master.  I  
think there'd be more contributors if contributing was a simple  
process (and not so Linux-centric): installing git and all its myriad  
dependencies, learning texinfo, etc.  I simply don't have time for  
all that.  I'm happy to write text, revise text, proof-read etc. for  
the Web site and the docs, but I'd submit anything in text or HTML.


On Jul 10, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Graham Percival wrote:

> Great!  Install git, and then follow the instructions here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-06/msg00348.html
>
> More git instructions here (just follow the above email for the
> "getting the source code")
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/devel/contrib-guide/index
>
> Once you have the source, look in texinfo/*.texi and
> texinfo/css/lilypond-general.css
>
> Find some typo, or misspelling, or rewrite some sentence or
> whatever, then send me a patch.  (instructions in the CG)
>
> (an absolutely trivial patch is fine; the important thing right
> now is just to get used to git and sending patches)