> Again, the only solution is to get more people involved. Is it > easy? No, but the only way to make it easier for new developers > is for more people to join, learn stuff, then write about what > they learned.
Hi, I would like to share my experience of starting lilypond developer. I am already a C++ programmer (half of my every day work). First I understood I had to use git which I did not know. I went to the git web site and found that so exciting compared to svn I used before that I read books about it during 2 months, then converted all my business projects to git and use git everyday for my lilypond scores. For that I say thank you lilypond. Then I understood I could not do anything with a Windows computer. As I am using a PC that can only have Windows (not mine...) I understood from the list that I could try VirtualBox: again wonderful experience. I installed Ubuntu and I am now in a position to help with fixing some bugs, improving the documentation. Sorry I did not use the iso because I like to learn how it works, also I did not use Carl's git interface because I love using terminals only. So my first thought about lilypond is thank you for giving me the opportunity to discover really state of the art/modern tools. OK it may be the second because the first is thank you for so beautiful sheet music and for a text input so that we can use a versionning system to record any version of a file. Then I tried to give a bit of help: here I must say that grep is my friend. grep is really a wonderful tool but I was used to it well before. Today my difficulties to help more in lilypond are: 1. to understand the internal of lilypond, in particular, the interaction between C++ code and scheme code 2. to understand scheme code. But maybe I am the only one to blame as this may already be explained somewhere in the so large documentation. Frédéric _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
