On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:44:49PM +0100, Graham Percival wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 08:23:00AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > I'm not convinced we need a Frog Meister. Anyone capable > > of developing a patch to LilyPond code is capable of uploading > > it to Reitveld. Any help required could be given on the list by > > any of the contributors. > > Frog Meister, under this (re)interpretation, is more of a social > position than a technical one.
Maybe I should have specified "social and organizational". And maybe we should call them "managers" rather than "mentors". > Perfect example: two weeks ago, issue 1630 chord autosplit was > almost finished (it only needed a few minor code formatting). At the risk (or certainty) of being completely immodest, I shall put myself forward as a "perfect example" of what I envision by a "mentor/manager". I don't care about chords, let alone chords inside a Completion_heads_engraver. Nor do I know how the tie engraver works, or engravers in general. This issue is not a problem for me, nor do I expect to ever benefit from this bugfix in person. I've never reviewed the technical aspects of issue 1630. But I think I was an excellent mentor for Janek on that in the past 2 days. Even if I don't care about a patch, I can still pretend to care about it. (at the end it was kind-of Janek working and me mentoring, rather than Karin/Janek) - I prompted him to contact Karin - I discussed some non-technical issues (indentation) - I commiserated (off-list) with him about various problems in the community. - when he (and Karin) had obviously gone beyond the call of duty, I stepped forward and spent 15 minutes finishing off the non-technical issues. - above all else, I tried to keep things "moving". When something got stuck, I investigated and either fixed it, or tried to put him/them in touch with people who _could_ fix it. I think that most new contributors would benefit *enormously* from having a dedicated person who does those things. Whether we call them mentors or managers or big brothers or sempai/kouhai or whatever. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
