Graham Percival <graham <at> percival-music.ca> writes: > > Long ago, ...we had Documentation/topdocs/AUTHORS.texi, > ... we added a THANKS...everybody stopped updating AUTHORS...I'm not > even certain if the THANKS is maintained. > > As part of the new website... > Documentation/general/basic-authors.itexi > which is included in general (.html, .pdf, .info) and will also be > built as a top-level .txt file. > > I want to junk THANKS, and migrate the old AUTHORS into the new > list. We then have a single place to maintain. > > - any volunteers to move the old AUTHORS into the new authors > list, in particular checking urls, email addresses, and checking > if people who listed email addresses want to keep them publicly > visible? > > - any volunteers to find anything in the various THANKS files > throughout the ages and add anything relevant to the new > authors list? > > - I just realized that we might want to keep a list of "current > contributors" distinct from contributors in general (in order > to generate a THANKS if desired), so we'll need a few changes > to basic-authors.itexi and community.itexi. > > Please note that this has nothing to do with the copyright debate. > There only issues here are morally giving credit where it is due, > and good information presentation. > > Cheers, > - Graham >
Mr Percival, I found this thread while searching around for something that I could possibly help with to contribute to the lily 'community'. and saw that no one had replied to it, so I assume this task is still open? I have no programming background, and while I keep seeing in some threads that this is not a requirement, it does seem that some kind of knowledge of the tools that you use to build the software is needed nonetheless. However this task seems to me to be a 'search through text files and update information, check links and collate it all together again from a number of different places' which doesn't seem too complicated. So I am happy to volunteer to help with this if I can or if you have any other collating/sorting of information that doesn't involve writing snippets (i'm ok at writing my own .ly files but not yet what I would call a 'power user') or giving instruction for the user manuals as again, I am not confident that I know enough (yet) to articulate something accurately and concisely for help files. Anyway, the offer is there let me know if and how I can help with this specific request. I have installed the Lilybunto OS onto a VM and seem to have managed to follow instructions to compile (I didn't see any errors) and I can see a THANKS file but not an Authors, anyway..let me know. Yours James _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
