Re: state of the ’Pond for earnest tadpoles

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Jonas (et al.),

> I would claim that the contributor experience has been pretty stable
> since the initial switch to GitLab. Enabling CI and the recent work to
> also run 'make check' automatically shouldn't change much from a
> contributor's point of view, I hope.
> I can't promise to give detailed guidance, the procedures should be
> described in unstable's CG, but if there's anything unclear or even
> wrong I'm more than happy to help you and of course fix the docs.

So here’s what I’ve done, as per 
<https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/lilydev>:

1. Download & install VirtualBox. No problem!

2. Download LilyDev 2 from 
<https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/releases/tag/v2>. Um… There’s only one 
file that seems like it’s the downloadable one (LilyDev-2-debian-vm.zip), and 
it’s not named as per the docs ("lilydev-vm-fedora-VERSION"). Is that a doc 
problem, or am I being daft?

3. Unzip the downloaded file. It becomes a folder containing an .img file. 
Okay… except the docs claim it should be a "raw" file. So do I try to convert 
that to VDI?

Note: I’m on Mac OS High Sierra (10.13.6).

Thanks,
Kieren.
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