On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:55:04AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Graham Percival writes: > > > Almost everybody wants stable releases more frequently. They > > attract positive attention > > Are you sure?
It attracted positive attention on lilypond-user. I never said *how* much attention it received. > On what fora was the 2.14 release announced? Did it > eventually make lwn.net? Has anyone checked how many followers we have > on FB or Twitter (MuseScore, anyone?). > > How long ago was the last real LilyPond review you've read (may 2011 was > on musescore happened to mention lily)? Well, I personally don't care. If somebody wants to work on advertising, or even better, work on things which encourage other people to do advertising for us, they're welcome to do so. At the moment, the top 3 problems for publicity that I see are: 1. no prospect of stable releases due to GUB problems, and nobody working on them. 2. the old lilypond.org/web/ pages are still up (and probably still in google's cache), various links point to those, which gives the impression that our project died 3 years ago or something. Some of that work needs to be done by you, me, or Han-Wen, but most of the work to fix this can be done by others. No volunteer has come forward in the past 2 years to dedicate work getting this done, though. So it's moving forward at a glacial pace when I have time left in my weekly 10 hours and there's no worse disasters. This seems to work out to 1 hour per month. 3. no lilypond report. It seems that David and Valentin are tackling this one. 4. no rss feed, no automatic twitter announcements, no google+ announcements, etc. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=940 has been on the books for 2 years; nobody's interested. Even if I was interested in manually submitting announcements to places (which I'm not, although I'd be willing do it for stable announcements), nobody has touched http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1719 Looks, this is just like musicxml export. All the bits and pieces are out there; if somebody was willing to spend 2-3 hours working on it, we'd see a huge step forward. But unless I see somebody seriously working on these, I see no point getting worked up about it. We collectively have demonstrated that we do not care about publicity. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
