Re: New LilyPond website

[David Kastrup]

Karlin High <address@hidden> writes:

>>From: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
>>Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2016 3:35 PM
>>   
>>If there was a single mentor for the new contributor, and if other
>>people didn't make well-intentioned but ultimately misleading
>>suggestions, we could have avoided 95% of this mess.
>
> Dunno quite, but I gather you have far more experience in this area.
>
> To me, a good web developer is someone with the technical skill of a
> computer programmer and the creativity and "style sense" of a graphic
> designer. I think people with those skill sets are rare indeed if they
> take kindly to being told how to do their own work in somebody else's
> way, and how and why their preferred methods are unsuitable for the
> job at hand. Couldn't offering a mentor leave the impression that the
> LilyPond community thinks they don't know their stuff?

More like they don't know our stuff.

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David Kastrup