http://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/1741/
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Bernardo Barros <bernardo.bar...@nyu.edu> wrote: > 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-user@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 > > -- 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
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