Re: Supporting my work on LilyPond financially

[David Kastrup]

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <address@hidden> writes:

> On 30/11/13 21:40, David Kastrup wrote:
>> The backend is much less coherent, so expertise is harder to acquire,
>> people tend to work with partial knowledge, and progress is a lot
>> more fragile.  We need to get those four months down, and yes, a
>> shouting match is not going to help.  What will help is refactoring
>> and rearchitecturing, and that needs people with a thorough
>> programming background.
>
> Is it perhaps worthwhile having a purely "backend cycle" where _all_
> development effort is focused on turning the backend into something
> that's easy to work with?

I don't think this sort of preplanning works out well.  Mostly it just
leads to people going away until the stuff they are not interested in is
done.  We need to figure out better ways to work on parallel and partly
conflicting goals.

-- 
David Kastrup