We have now entered the main phase of GDP. I seem to have done a poor job of explaining what's happening, so I'll try to explain it better. Please read this message carefully.
If something in this message contradicts anything I said in the past couple of days, please treat this message as correct. (and/or ask for clarification :) OVERALL We are currently working on Chapter 1 of the user manual / notation reference: "1 Musical notation". Sorry vocal guys: we're not touching your stuff again for at least a month. There are two main tasks in GDP: Formatting and Rewriting. We will be Rewriting two sections at most. REWRITING I will post a Draft Rewrite message when we begin examining a section. Please discuss the changes there. After about a week, we will start rewriting the section, then we'll post a second draft. Again, please read the section and comment on anything else that should be changed. Translators: please, PLEASE, take part in this. If there's anything you don't understand in a section, comment during the Draft Rewrite time. It is _much_ easier to rewrite the documentation while we're actually rewriting it. If you ask questions about a doc section three months after we've finished working on it... well, we'll still help you, of course. But it would be really nice if you could ask those questions when we're actually working on each section. TIMEFRAME There will be a week for discussion about a section. Then we'll have about a week of rewriting, followed by another week of discussion. If all goes well, the section will be finished; otherwise we'll add another week of work and discussion. It will probably take two months to cover chapter 1. If we have enough manpower (sorry ladies, it's a generic term; I'm not being sexist), we might start chapter 2 earlier. FORMATTING These were formally known as "trivial/easy" tasks, but I thought that term was a bit insulting. My general rule of thumb is that a task is Formatting if I could do these jobs on a document about Chinese History, rewritten in Swahili -- a language I don't understand, about a subject for which I am totally ignorant. There are 8 sections in the chapter, so ideally I would like 6 formatting helpers. I currently have four helpers; most of whom are interested in Rewriting. But we need to get these formatting things done, so I've asked them to work on formatting instead. If you're interested in having these people work on rewriting instead, please volunteer! Each week, a formatting helper will take one section that we're not rewriting. They will make whatever improvements they feel comfortable doing -- if you think some English is bad, but you don't really understand it, feel free to leave it alone! If you don't have a clue what microtones are, but you see that the indentation in the lilypond example uses 1 space instead of 2, go ahead and fix the spaces without touching the actual lilypond code. SUMMARY Currently we are discussing the rewrite for Pitches, and I am seeking formatting helpers to get the rest of chapter 1 in slightly better shape. I'll open up the discussion about the rewrite for Rhythms as soon as I feel that everything else is working smoothly. If you are interested in another part of the docs (learning manual, vocal stuff, scheme, etc), then please wait until we get to that section. The more help we get for chapter 1, the sooner we'll get to other sections. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user