2012/9/23 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>:
> Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> regarding all the GLISS-discussions, talking about topic "x" or topic
>> "y" I feel not sure we're discussing the _really_ important questions
>> for users, especially for beginners.
>> We all outstripped the starting-difficulties and we all are quite
>> familiar with the existing problems, maybe too much.
>>
>> Someone (was it you, David?) mentioned recently that it is only a
>> small subset of all users who are participating on a mailing-list. I
>> want to add that non-native english-speaking beginners will hesitate
>> quite more joining an international list. More likely they will join a
>> national list.
>>
>> Werner suggested to start a poll about topics annoying, irritating,
>> hindering users.
>>
>> So I thought it might be an idea to start threads on national
>> lists/forums about it and after same time (a week?) collect and list
>> the complains, ideas, proposals.
>
> It will take some sifting through to arrive at things that make LilyPond
> and/or the user look bad "without good reason", where "good reason" is
> anchored more in logic and good sense rather than constraints of our
> particular implementation.

I intend to list the complains, ideas, proposals with two methods:
-1. raw, perhaps alphabetical ordered (whoever might be interested in it)
-2. filtered and commented

> At any rate, this does not sound like a bad idea.  It is not sure that a
> lot will come from it, but it is not like it would take the same amount
> of time and energy as when happening on the developer list.  At least
> the efforts are better distributed that way.  And it quite likely that
> at least some inspiration will come about this way.

Hopefully.


-Harm

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