Hi Kevin, On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Kevin Tough <ke...@toughlife.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 13:06 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Thomas Morley > > <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > in this long thread (and some others) people posted their > > wishlist for > > LilyPond-features. > > Currently not a single line of code was added to our code > > base, though. > > > > To start the first step may I suggest: > > > > If you wish a lily-feature not yet available. > > 1. Look into our bug-tracker. Maybe there is an issue for it > > already. > > You may want to comment there. > > 2. If not, mail to our bug-list requesting this feature. This > > way it > > does not get lost. > > > > No guarantee that anyone will work on it, though. Our amount > > of > > developers is very limited. > > Also, very often other problems are more pressing. Right now: > > our > > bug-tracker will shut down and we need to move to guilev2 (no > > warrant > > for completeness...) > > > > If you are a programmer, have coding-experience or even only a > > good > > knowledge of standard-LilyPond. > > Please consider what you may be able to contribute. > > A patch? > > Answering user-request? > > ... > > > > All that would help. > > > > > > Please, please, pretty please. The activity on the lists is > > excellent--what a great community to be part of! However, the number > > of people who contribute to the codebase is incredibly > > small--frighteningly small for anyone who loves this program and wants > > to see it survive and prosper, as we all do! > > > > > > Take a look here to see development activities, how few people are > > actively involved: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=summary > > > > > > If you have a great idea, please consider working on it yourself. > > Especially if you self-identify as a programmer--and I suspect there > > are plenty who frequent the lists. I say this because there's a good > > chance your good idea will go absolutely nowhere otherwise. > > > > > > > > (Please take this as a plea for more help with the project! It is not > > intended to downplay the efforts by the contributors to this thread.) > > > > > > Best, > > David > > _______________________________________________ > > lilypond-user mailing list > > lilypond-user@gnu.org > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > Hi David and others, > > as a old hobby I programmed with VS. I use Linux and through Fedora I > found Lilypond. Although at the moment I have no time for programming I > will hope to change things in the future. As a prospective future > contributor to code for Lilypond is it easy enough to start with QT4 > using their free open source licensing model or what direction would you > suggest. I really like Vim but am not anywhere near a power user yet. > > Namaste, > Kevin Tough > I can't recommend a good IDE to use, because I don't use one with LilyPond: a basic text editor and git grep is sufficient for me. QtCreator has been recommended to me, though, and maybe others could chime in with their preferences. Development is made *considerably* easier by LilyDev: see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/lilydev Whenever you're able to help, whatever you can do will be appreciated! Best, David
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