On Dec 11, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 08:39:58AM +0200, Mike Solomon wrote: >> See: >> >> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Allows-minimum-length-to-work-for-end-of-line-spanners-issue-7453046-td141952.html#a142870 >> as one of several examples. There is truth in anything David says, >> meaning that I (like him (and most of us on this list)) have caused bugs >> that I did not find or fix before someone else. How, does this warrant >> this communication style? > > Interesting. I totally agree that lilypond has a problem (see > below), but in that email chain I find myself nodding along with > David. I mean, he makes empirical claims (such as documentation > about partial elliptic stencils) that I assume are accurate (since > I doubt he would make empirical claims without checking that they > are true). > Anything empirical in there is accurate. > > However, I am not blind to the end result of the communications. > I mean, at the beginning of September 2012 (after the meeting at > the ranch) I was more enthusiastic about LilyPond than I had been > for the previous 5 years, but one month later I decided to pretty > much quit the project. This is bad. If this were some ultimate, fatalistic consequence of participation in any open-source project, I’d shrug and move onto the next, but it is precisely because in every other project I participate in this _doesn’t_ exist that I’m going through pains to try to solve this here. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel