Am 29.01.2016 um 05:01 schrieb Paul Morris: > Hi Urs, > > Well, David K mentored “MusicXML” last summer so he would surely qualify > as a potential mentor if he wants to be listed as such. David, what are your > thoughts and your availability and interest for this summer? > > Also, Janek was willing to mentor “Slurs and Ties” last summer, so he would be > a potential mentor for that one. I’d suggest contacting him directly if you > haven’t yet.
I will do that - although I doubt he'll be available. > > I think the ideas list should cast a wide net. While it would be ideal if we > had > mentors lined up for every project, the main thing is to get students to > contact > us and then proceed from there. For example, if we have a really motivated > and > capable student, a secondary mentor might be willing to be a primary mentor, or > maybe we can find a primary mentor at that point to make it happen (sometimes > peoples plans change). That’s why I like listing “Potential Mentors”. It > allows > for more flexibility. > > In short I’d rather a student contact us and then work on matching them up > with a > project and mentor, than have them not contact us because they liked a > particular > project but it was listed as not having a mentor. These are good points > > So I see two possibilities: > > 1. Add the new projects and re-sort the list so the projects with definite > mentors > are at the top and those currently without definite mentors are toward the > bottom. > > 2. Have two lists, one for projects with definite mentors for summer 2016, > and one > for the rest of the projects. (The minor downside is then things have to be > refreshed each year.) > I suggest the second option. IMO reviewing this every year and keeping it current is a good thing anyway. I'm sure somehow one "feels" if such a list is maintained or not ... > The chord project that Carl describes sounds like a nice addition to me, as > does your > project on spanners crossing voices. Should I prepare a description even if I think I can't serve as mentor? > > -Paul > > P.S. I don’t suppose it would be possible (and make sense) to do a joint > project with > Guile to work on LilyPond and Guile 2.0 interoperability? Like with mentors > from both > projects. I assume that would be too difficult a task at this point, at > least I think > that was the thinking last year. > Would be great to have ... Urs > -- Urs Liska www.openlilylib.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
