Dear Xavier, hereby i'd like to thank you for your time spent on helping LilyPond! It's true that user's work often is not appreciated enough.
2012/1/23 Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com>: > Dear Graham, dear Developers, > why I never *demand* > developers to fix an issue, even if it is one that is really annoying > my ego in almost every score I typeset. Sometimes when an issue has > been unfixed for years and when I see people often being troubled by > this issue I post a message stating it and thus moving this issue "from > the bottom of the pile". One thing comes to my mind: you are talking about bugs that annoy many people, and they waste a lot of your own time. Have you considered organizing a collective bounty to fix that bug? If i remember correctly, David is interested in working on Lily for money; there may be others. If you find 20 people annoyed by a bug and each one gives 10$, that's something! For example i'm interested in sponsoring bugfixes and new features, but there's no way i can afford to hire someone myself (200-500$? i'm a student!). But i'm definately interested in giving 10$ for each of the bugs that affect my Lily workflow. > My main goal was to > attract attention to Emilio's nice project of music font with LilyPond. > I attracted Graham's attention on me instead. Well, you asked for Graham's attention when you cc'd him. I think cc'ing him was a mistake, because: - his function as administrator means that he won't do stuff like this (help someone with music font) - he clearly declared that he won't even try to talk other people into doing anything. Thus, no point in cc'ing Graham - expect for being > bitten by the red ants' queen! That's not a surprise. Graham's sensitivity is well-known, especially in this context. I know that you didn't want to offend Graham (i wouldn't be offended if i were on Graham's place), but nevertheless Graham felt offended. The only thing we can do about it is to write e-mails in a way that not only seems polite to us, but also will be received as polite by Graham (or whoever the recipient is) - it's hard, i know. (actually i think things would be easier for Graham if he were less sensitive, but it's his choice and he can do whatever he likes - even if it's difficult for us) Recently i seriously offended David without intentions to do so at all - it was also a miscommunication :( cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
