Federico, thanks for writing this. There is a mixture of hope and despair in the responses, as well as an understanding of the complexities in an all-volunteer site.
The content in Mutopia is substantial enough to be a great resource and managing this content via volunteers will always be a challenge. There have been a number of updates in the past year -- utf-encoding conversions, project status updates, data consistency repairs -- and these have been good starting points. Much of that effort took place without engaging mutopia-discuss and that was probably a mistake. As long as the content is good (correct, aesthetically pleasing, readable, and using a reasonably current version of LilyPond) I believe the site holds value. It is not as good as it could be. On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Federico Bruni <fedel...@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] > 3. Requisites for the lilypond files > Some people are discouraged by the criteria to get the files accepted. For > example, they may create the score with Denemo and then export the lilypond > file, but they cannot check the quality of the file. > I'd suggest them to try to submit their file to the mutopia-discuss list > and see if someone can clean the input. Personally, I'd be glad to > contribute this way. > As long as the Denemo-based transcriber understands that they may not be able to "round-trip" their submission. > 4. Web interface > Currently the contributions are handled via github or by email. > Github is a good way but it's for geeks only. There are currently only > seven contributors: > https://github.com/chrissawer/The-Mutopia-Project/graphs/contributors > > The email may be a good alternative, but who is receiving > contributions@emails? Just Chris? I have no idea if people send contributions > this way. > > A modern web interface may attract more contributions? > Probably, but I've come to believe that updating the content is more important. -glen (just an active Mutopia-Project volunteer)
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