Dear all,
I am pleased to report that a plan is being put together to get Mutopia
up-and-running again. Thanks to Valentin Villenave we are moving the
source repository to a publicly accessible GIT server and starting a bug
tracking system. This should allow us to divide tasks between a number
of volunteers rather than one person having to do everything.
The following message has been posted on the website asking for volunteers:
Project update June 2011
Mutopia has not been actively maintained for around a year. However a
new team is being put together to work through the backlog and get
Mutopia up-and-running again. Could you help us? We are looking for
volunteers to help with the following roles:
- Adding new contributions sent to us
- Applying corrections to existing pieces
- Upgrading pieces written with old LilyPond versions
- Redeveloping website (programming)
- Redeveloping build scripts (programming)
- Translation of website
- Delegating incoming e-mail ("front desk")
- Answering legal queries (English)
- Answering general queries (English)
- Answering queries in non-English languages
- Maintaining projects in progress page and chasing/removing old ones
Any help that can be offered will be appreciated. Thanks to Javier
Ruiz-Alma who is looking at applying corrections to existing pieces.
The backend is currently an unpleasant mixture of Perl and Java but I am
looking to move to Python for both the website and build scripts. A
start has already been made on this.
I would like to apologise to all those who have contributed pieces and
sent corrections that have not yet been added to the website. I hope we
can work through the backlog over the next few weeks.
I think Mutopia is still unique in offering sheet music with full source
files that can be edited using free software. I hope we can maintain it
as a useful resource going forward.
Regards,
Chris
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