Dear all, I contributed before, maybe I will join it again, didn't know the situation was so bad.
Something I requested many years ago was the support for quarter-tone tablatures notation, which seems to work but is actually buggy at the moment, it generates wrong tablatures in strings with quarter-tones alterations etc. Did it receive some attention recently? Best wishes, Bernardo On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Federico Bruni <f...@inventati.org> wrote: > Il giorno gio 22 ott 2015 alle 23:09, Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org> ha > scritto: > >> As to sponsoring individual features there is a tradition (?) of >> bounties. You can ask for a feature or report a bug that annoys you >> personally on the bug-lilypond mailing list and say that you are willing >> to spend X Dollars or Euro or whatever. You may find someone who chimes >> in, sometimes other users chime in to increase the bounty. But I can't >> say how successful these things have been in the past and what the >> chances are to get "the" specific thing done one has in mind. >> > > In 6 years I've been following LilyPond I've never seen a bounty having > success. None of the issues marked with Bounty label is closed, which seems > to confirm my feeling. > > We have currently 19 open issues marked as Bounty: > > https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/search?q=labels%3A%22Bounty%22+AND+!status%3Aclosed+AND+!status%3AVerified+AND+!status%3ADuplicate > > Obviously, bounties are more likely to attract interested donators, who > know what they are paying for and that it will be useful for them. I know > that it is more complicated for a number of reasons.. but why not even 1 > bounty in 6 years (unless I missed something) worked out? > > >> Now to David: I don't think your report should be interpreted like users >> "have stopped being happy with" your work. I think it should be >> interpreted as "a significant number of people who did pay something in >> the past don't do that anymore. And others didn't fill the gap." >> >> People may stop donating money for any number of reasons. OK, not being >> happy with your work is one possible reason but I'm sure it's not the >> reason of a majority of these people. The issue is: the type of income >> stream that you are after doesn't keep its level on its own. If you want >> to keep (or even increase) it you *have* to do constant advertising. And >> I think the last time we heard about the fact that you even *have* this >> sponsoring scheme was in 2013. I know it's hard to ask for money, even >> when you do that in exchange for an actual value. But without it won't >> just work out on itself. >> > > I agree, but I think that we can easily improve the situation. A few > simple ideas: > > 1) DOWNLOAD PAGE > What's the most viewed page in the website (excluding the home)? Probably > the download page: > http://lilypond.org/website/download.html > > Let's add there a big Note saying something like: "Our most active main > developer David Kastrup is working full-time on LilyPond development and > need your support to make a living. If you use and love LilyPond, please > allow David to continue his precious work by contributing whatever amount > of money you can afford. [link to Community>Sponsoring page]" > > 2) SPONSORING PAGE > I can guess without looking at 'git log' that the sponsoring page was > written by Graham :-) > It does not encourage any donation, right? The feeling is very different > from what we are reading in many replies in this thread. Maybe it's time to > change it a little bit? > > 3) GITSTATS > The gitstats linked in the sponsoring pages are a great idea but they are > out-of-date (november 2012). Any chance to keep them up-to-date > automatically? > Also, I'd rather link to the Authors tab: > http://lilypond.org/~graham/gitstats-3months/AUTHORS.html > > gitstats is just a python script. Who has access to the server may just > set up a cron job to create the stats every X days: > https://github.com/hoxu/gitstats/blob/master/doc/INSTALL > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-u...@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- Bernardo Barros NYU, GSAS PhD cand Music Composition 24 Waverly Place, Room 268 New York, NY 10003 http://bernardobarros.com http://babelscores.com/bernardobarros http://soundcloud.com/bernardobarros _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
