>On Tuesday 12 June 2012 23:41, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> >wrote:
>I'm afraid that my first reaction is "thanks, but no thanks". See below. >Be warned that the CG is not actively maintained. I estimate that >approximately 20% of the advice in the CG misleading, and 10% of the advice >is harmful. It was not intended to be harmful, of course, but when policies >and the technical layout of lilypond development change but the CG is not >updated, the end result can be worse than giving no advice at all. >I cannot in good conscience encourage anybody to become involved with >lilypond development at the present time unless they have a mentor. It >would, of course, be really nice if somebody like Janek offered to mentor >you on this. (...) >At the present time, I doubt that many beginners notice the cheatsheet at >all, expanded or not. However, if the cheatsheet were improved, we could >give it greater prominence, all the way to including it on the main doc page >on the website (probably under the "regular use" heading). I could see that >being very useful, actually. >The more I think about it, the more this seems like an excellent way to get >into lilypond development. But I still cannot honestly encourage you to do >this unless you have an experienced mentor. Hi Graham, I get slightly mixed messages from what you say. If I read what you say last, first, I get the feeling that an expanded and improved cheatsheet might be worth some work to see whether it turned out to look useful. I know that in my first spasm of experimentation with LilyPond a few years ago, I kept a printout of the then cheatsheet close at hand (annotated increasingly with time, but long since lost) and I referred to it frequently. If that's correct, I guess your initial "thanks, but no thanks" is directed more to the possibility of my becoming a more serious contributor, with a virtual drive in my Windows environment to draft stuff with an unfamiliar text processor and create patches and use the git and stuff like that. I've had a look at the CG and, whether it's up-to-date or not, it looks pretty impenetrable to me at first sight, if not downright scary. I can't see me setting myself up as a contributor in that way at this stage, even with a mentor. I'm inclined to try to knock together a draft expanded cheatsheet on my own account and float it (e.g. in PDF format) on the user list. If it generates interest, I can do some further work on it. If Janek (who, I can see from the many posts of his that I've read, is patently good-natured) is prepared to keep an eye on what I produce, that would be great, and hopefully others would also have something to say. If it finds sufficient favor over time, I can then ask for advice as to whether and how to proceed with a more formal contribution. On the other hand, if my drafts just produce yawns and/or jeers, they can be consigned to the arid and boring realm of failed endeavors, and I'll smile serenely. Does my thinking seem to be in a sensible direction having regard to what you said? Cheers, Philip _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
