Re: openLilyLib (development)

[Urs Liska]

Am 09.11.2017 um 22:55 schrieb Sam Bivens:
> Hi Urs,
>
> Like Ralph, my programming skills are minimal (=mostly nonexistent). 
> Is there a way for people like us to contribute?

Definitely!
One of the things openLilyLib is missing is documentation of various 
kinds. In a way the most pressing is some low-level "package 
documentation" on the file level. It is pressing because it requires 
prior development of a suitable infrastructure (actually we had exposed 
this as a project suggestion for the Google Summer of Code this year), 
and because this will become even more a problem with each added package 
or package feature.

But equally useful for making openLilyLib usable and useful is a layer 
of high-level descriptions, and this is something non-programmers can 
very well contribute to. It would be good to have more content on 
oll-core's Wiki (https://github.com/openlilylib/oll-core/wiki), giving 
more essayistic and practical information about what openLilyLib *is*, 
how it generally works and how it can be installed and used. 
Additionally similar overviews would be useful for the individual 
packages themselves (which can be found on https://github.com/openlilylib).

One possible way to contribute would be to get familiar with the system 
and/or with individual packages (the existing package are of quite 
varying complexity and maturity ...) and add descriptions to the Wiki 
pages of the different packages.

Getting familiar with packages can be started by trying out and 
investigating the example files that should be present in all packages. 
Of course I and the main authors of other packages would be happy to 
help with that process.
And working on that kind of high-level documentation can easily be done 
in the GIthub web interface, with very little (if at all) knowledge of Git.

Best
Urs

> Thanks,
>
> Sam
>
>
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