Hi, you seem to use some very strange quotation style. Please use regular quotation style (i.e. your text without > marks, each quotation level has one > more).
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:44 PM, SoundsFromSound <soundsfromso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Janek Warchoł-2 wrote >> - contributing to Lily yourself (i.e. writing code, or documentation, >> or helping with organizing things - you don't have to be a programmer >> to help) also has a positive effect on lily development in general, >> but the difference wrt/ implementing boxed notation won't be >> noticeable unless you start working on boxed notation itself, > > I wish I could contribute more to the notation programming itself but > I'm not a strong programmer (unless you count OOP like MaxMSP, etc) - > so that really isn't an option for me. as i've said, there are tasks not involving programming. And they do make a difference. >> - you can pay one of the experienced developers to implement >> specifically this feature. But that would probably be expensive, as >> programming work is expensive in general. You'll probably need to >> find several other people willing to pay for this. > > I'm confused, I thought David was a developer - no? Yes, he is. Our most active one at the moment. > You said paying him would not be a likely path to seeing > this boxed notation implemented further, but rather just to help LilyPond > in general, progress as software. It depends. You can add $10/month to the "general David fund", just to enable David working on LilyPond in general (that's continouous financial support). Or you can negotiate a specific contract with him - or someone else - where you'd give that person a significantly bigger amount of money once and he'd implement something specific (that's hiring a programmer to implement a feature). > How would one go about getting an "estimate" with regards to requests like > this one? No idea. I don't know how much work this feature would require. A wild guess would be something between 5 and 50 hours for an experienced programmer. Considering appropriate programmer salaries, that means anywhere between $200 and $3000. But my estimate could just as well be totally wrong right from the start. > Thank you for clarifying this for me, because up until this > point, I thought the boxed notation situation was in its current state > because it simply was not possible (from a coding standpoint or something) > - not a matter of time/funding/desire for modern notation possibilities. Well, almost everything is possible when you have enough money. If someone would give us a million dollars, we would hire a dozen experienced programmers for a year and after that time LilyPond would become a completely different project, possibly overcoming many present problems (and inventing new ones ;P). Do you have a millionaire friend, perchance? best, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
