Hi David I can only echo the good wishes and thanks that others have already expressed. Lilypond is a great program - the more I use it the more I can see the potential if I can ever get my head around the finer points.
Meanwhile the list provides great support, and you have been a major contributor to the on-list help as well as to the project itself. So - thanks again, and good luck in your new post. David On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 18:09 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Hi folks and team, > > while I haven't really occupied an official function in LilyPond > development, it's hard to deny that I have effectively functioned as > acting chief architect and vetter (with a rather mottled > performance). > > Partly in connection with a drop of my productivity particularly this > year, the amount of financial support for my work from members of the > LilyPond community went down from overall survivable to > disastrous. Of > course this is bitter for those of you that did contribute in > significant amounts to my subsistence but I have to be moving on. > > I have accepted a full-time development (and team management) > position > with another company. Due to their project and team expansion plans, > I will be starting already in December. > > This employment is in another city. I'll be travelling back and > forth > weekly for the foreseeable future. While I might be working on some > LilyPond side projects interesting to me occasionally, I will not be > able to do any serious amound of coordination or other activity > involving me with LilyPond's community. > > As my communication style has proven to be a somewhat mixed blessing > for > the purpose of attracting long-term developers, I expect that this > may > help in the long run for finding a different balance of areas > LilyPond > is getting worked on. > > During his tenure as LilyPond leader, Graham has demonstrated that > even > without a central technical lead there is a lot of potential to focus > the resources of people willing to work on and expand LilyPond and we > have been continuing to reap the results of his talent for organizing > people into useful teams even though I have not really figured out > how > to fill gaps in the various teams and tools managing LilyPond's > infrastructure to offset the "natural" amounts of fluctuation. > > I'll try seeing through the release of 2.20 in the little time > remaining > to me both before and after starting my job. My main worry is the > current comparative amount of instability with regard to font > handling, > and my main bad taste is that 2.20.1 will not be able to support > Guile 2: there is no way that anything deserving the label of > "stable" > and including Guile 2 will come about in the rest of my tenure. > > There are also several half-completed features that are a nuisance. > I do not expect to be able to to a significant amount of work on them > in > the foreseeable future. > > Once consequence, of course, is that my requirement for funding is > over. > I am greatly thankful to the people who have enabled me to keep > working > on LilyPond as long as I did, but what remains in my bank account, in > spite of being quite less than what I started with when working on > LilyPond, is sufficient to tide me over the time to my first > paycheck. > > So I would ask you to cancel any regular bank payments you might > still > have in place as of December: I don't see that I will have a > reasonable > chance at returning a tangible value for them. > > Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
