Re: Do we really offer the future?

[Kevin Tough]

On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 13:06 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Thomas Morley
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>         2015-04-22 22:38 GMT+02:00 tisimst
>         <address@hidden>:
>         > All,
>         >
>         > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Noeck [via Lilypond]
>         <[hidden email]>
>         > wrote:
>         >>
>         >> this is a triviality for most of you and it does not solve
>         the original
>         >> issue of deleting a measure easily.
>         >
>         >
>         > I have really enjoyed following this thread. It's always
>         fascinating to hear
>         > from everyone's experiences and opinions. I just thought I'd
>         chime in,
>         > though, in hopes that this conversation won't get too
>         side-tracked by trying
>         > to solve the challenges that people mention (as helpful as
>         that may be),
>         > compared to discussing what obstacles keep LilyPond from
>         being able to offer
>         > the future. Once we have a good list of things that can make
>         transitioning
>         > easier, THEN we, as a community, can coordinate efforts to
>         solve the
>         > problems.
>         >
>         > One of the underlying points in Urs' original post is the
>         desire to be able
>         > to use LilyPond as a service (LaaS, ha ha) to those who need
>         engraving work
>         > done, wherever it comes from, whether it be a big or small
>         publisher,
>         > composers, etc. Anyone with experience trying to work with
>         publishers and
>         > their concerns would be prime contributors to this
>         conversation. I think
>         > this would go a long way in unifying our efforts rather than
>         debating them.
>         >
>         > - Abraham
>         >
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>         
>         Hi all,
>         
>         in this long thread (and some others) people posted their
>         wishlist for
>         LilyPond-features.
>         Currently not a single line of code was added to our code
>         base, though.
>         
>         To start the first step may I suggest:
>         
>         If you wish a lily-feature not yet available.
>         1. Look into our bug-tracker. Maybe there is an issue for it
>         already.
>         You may want to comment there.
>         2. If not, mail to our bug-list requesting this feature. This
>         way it
>         does not get lost.
>         
>         No guarantee that anyone will work on it, though. Our amount
>         of
>         developers is very limited.
>         Also, very often other problems are more pressing. Right now:
>         our
>         bug-tracker will shut down and we need to move to guilev2 (no
>         warrant
>         for completeness...)
>         
>         If you are a programmer, have coding-experience or even only a
>         good
>         knowledge of standard-LilyPond.
>         Please consider what you may be able to contribute.
>         A patch?
>         Answering user-request?
>         ...
>         
>         All that would help.
> 
> 
> Please, please, pretty please.  The activity on the lists is
> excellent--what a great community to be part of!  However, the number
> of people who contribute to the codebase is incredibly
> small--frighteningly small for anyone who loves this program and wants
> to see it survive and prosper, as we all do!
> 
> 
> Take a look here to see development activities, how few people are
> actively involved:
>  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=summary
> 
> 
> If you have a great idea, please consider working on it yourself.
> Especially if you self-identify as a programmer--and I suspect there
> are plenty who frequent the lists.  I say this because there's a good
> chance your good idea will go absolutely nowhere otherwise.
> 
> 
> 
> (Please take this as a plea for more help with the project!  It is not
> intended to downplay the efforts by the contributors to this thread.)
> 
> 
> Best,
> David
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Hi David and others,

as a old hobby I programmed with VS. I use Linux and through Fedora I
found Lilypond. Although at the moment I have no time for programming I
will hope to change things in the future. As a prospective future
contributor to code for Lilypond is it easy enough to start with QT4
using their free open source licensing model or what direction would you
suggest. I really like Vim but am not anywhere near a power user yet.

Namaste,
Kevin Tough