"Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes: > Graham Percival wrote Monday, September 03, 2012 1:00 PM > >> That proposal became: >> http://lilypond.org/~graham/gop/gop_4.html >> >> I don't know where to go from here. I spend a lot of effort >> trying to organize such discussions, because I think that LilyPond >> is a community project. I think that we should encourage people >> to participate, but telling people "ok, thanks for your work on >> XYZ, now get lost while the real developers talk about ABC" might >> discourage people from working. > > It did.
No doubt. And I don't want to promote a setup which will essentially end up as exactly that when viewed honestly. Trying to empower non-programmers by handing them the decisions over what the programmers should be achieving is something I just don't see working out to the best interests of either. The only thing I can think of for evening out the balance is to make it easier for non-programmers themselves to bring LilyPond to do what they want it to be doing. That requires documentation, and it requires moving LilyPond in a direction where working with and on it with confidence becomes easier. This kind of empowerment has been the main theme of most of my work on music functions and Scheme/LilyPond interaction. It is, however, ongoing work, and I don't think I am doing anybody a favor by keeping it half-finished. I don't have good answers with regard to the questions what our policies should be focusing on and ruling on. And I am totally bad working according to instructions myself. But I definitely see that many people can be more productive by having good guidelines to work with. I am doing the best I can, but I don't really see how I can justly deny the underlying gist of the characterization "ok, thanks for your work on XYZ, now get lost while the real developers talk about ABC". And I want to avoid creating organizational structures that will cause exactly that impression if I am trying to do serious work according to the best of my conscience. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
