Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: > On 22.10.2015 19:21, David Kastrup wrote: >> As you all know, my sole source of income are donations from happy >> LilyPond users. It would appear that LilyPond users have stopped being >> happy with my work. > > You must know that this is not the case. I should be much surprised if > I were the only one to appreciate the highly complicated work you do, > of which the results sometimes are hard to grasp in their immediate > effect. But that does not diminish their value for the project at all, > and unless I’m much mistaken nobody currently working on LilyPond > could rival your understanding of the internals and your ability to > fix them.
Sounds like a liability more than an asset. I do hope that I am moving in a direction where acquiring such understanding will become easier but the movement is slow as molasses. In the backend area, I think that of the active programmers, Keith O'Hara still has a better grasp of what is going on. Particularly with regard of weird dependencies so I am aiming to annihilate his advantage in the long run by getting rid of the need for dealing with weird dependencies manually. Cheating, I know. Dan has been taking up a number of C++ issues recently and also worked on moving things to more mainstream C++. David Nalesnik has been doing impressive things using Scheme alone, and Thomas Morley's contributions are not to be sneezed at either. I am glad that there is a bit more volume of work actually happening since, "understanding of the internals" or not, solving individual problems is still taking a lot of time and I am not particularly productive in that area. Probably age-related as I've passed 50. > I do not think one can construe a link between the work you do and the > sudden (?) decrease of funding; I don't think it would be sudden. It's been over a year since I started procrastinating about even taking a look at my finances and/or writing about them. I haven't yet looked further backward yet, but the Paypal account, usually responsible for a third or so of contributions, has been pretty dry for at least half a year or so when making small purchases. Of course, I'll still have to face the music eventually, but the total level of my bank account is roughly 4000 down from what I remember about a year or so ago. And I actually sold off one accordion in that time. > indeed, you continue to make quite impressive and important changes. > I have taken so much profit from your work that it’s about time I gave > something back. It can’t be as much as I’d certainly like to give, but > if I don’t remain the only one to take part, it will make a > difference. Please tell me (privately, I assume) where to direct the > support. (You probably know that I live in Germany.) Via separate mail. Thanks -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
