Re: State of the pond

2012-04-20 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > [1] why oh why does the main GNU editor not use the "official > extension language for the GNU operating system"?? Same reason why its keyboard shortcuts are only so-so compatible with CUA and/or GNOME: its development was started more than 30 years ago, when nobody had

Re: State of the pond

2012-04-20 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:23 PM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Graham Percival wrote: >> >> Development has slowed to a trickle.  I'm not certain if this is >> just because it's late spring (i.e. busy academic time), or if >> people are holding their breaths waiting f

Re: PATCH: Countdown to 20120422

2012-04-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 07:14:24AM -0600, Colin Campbell wrote: > To amplify my reply to Federico: if developers create similar > tracker items and attach a trivial patch without creating a Rietveld > issue, it would be very helpful if they would update the tracker > item as "patch-new" or perhaps

Re: PATCH: Countdown to 20120422

2012-04-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 06:54:45AM -0600, Colin Campbell wrote: > On 12-04-20 12:36 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: > >can you please tell me if it's normal that my patch has been ignored? > >It's a very trivial patch, maybe I didn't follow the right procedure? Hi Federico, Please follow this procedure

Re: announcing things like Mike's tour in News column?

2012-04-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 05:16:45PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:56 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > > It reflects the news entries in the repository.  When a new LilyPond > > Report appears, it _is_ announced there. > > Yes, it is. However, in the last 20 months only 2 out

Re: State of the pond

2012-04-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 07:38:06PM +0200, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: > Le 19/04/2012 21:30, Graham Percival disait : > >- nobody touches the release/unstable branch, other than > > translators, who may merge with that if they want to and don't > > break anything. > > The question of wheth

Re: State of the pond

2012-04-20 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 08:27:20AM -0700, Adam Spiers wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Graham Percival > wrote: > > Trying to anticipate future problems, I recalled guile > > indentation: > > http://codereview.appspot.com/4896043/ > > I would be happy to tackle this and *hope* to have a

Re: State of the pond

2012-04-20 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 19/04/2012 21:30, Graham Percival disait : We have a new release candidate, slower development, highlights on development problems, and a vacation. RELEASE CANDIDATE As always, this means: - activity on master goes on as normal. - nobody touches the release/unstable branch, other than

Re: State of the pond

2012-04-20 Thread Adam Spiers
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > Trying to anticipate future problems, I recalled guile > indentation: > http://codereview.appspot.com/4896043/ > My impression is that it would only take an hour or two to fix > this, and then we could standardize all the scheme indentatio

Re: announcing things like Mike's tour in News column?

2012-04-20 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:56 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Janek Warchoł writes: > >> What about a news item about Enseble 101's tour?  It seems reasonable >> to me; a short notice without "advertisement content" (i.e. without >> that Kickstarter part i guess) shouldn't be offensive, and it could >

Re: for_UP_and_DOWN

2012-04-20 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 17, 2012, at 11:19 PM, Łukasz Czerwiński wrote: > Ok, > > Could we sum up the discussion? > As I understand: for (UP_and_DOWN(d)) >{ >} > > is ok, right? I will wait for two OKs and then make changes and produce and > upload a patch. > > Łukasz > LGTM. Before you tackle this,

Re: PATCH: Countdown to 20120422

2012-04-20 Thread David Kastrup
Colin Campbell writes: > To amplify my reply to Federico: if developers create similar tracker > items and attach a trivial patch without creating a Rietveld issue, it > would be very helpful if they would update the tracker item as > "patch-new" or perhaps even as "patch-review". I recognise th

Re: State of the pond

2012-04-20 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > We have a new release candidate, slower development, highlights on > development problems, and a vacation. > > > SLOWER DEVELOPMENT > > Development has slowed to a trickle. I'm not certain if this is > just because it's late spring (i.e. bu

Re: PATCH: Countdown to 20120422

2012-04-20 Thread Colin Campbell
On 12-04-20 06:54 AM, Colin Campbell wrote: Hello, Federico I've put your patch straight onto the countdown, and it may be that one of the senior developers will give the OK to push it without further review. The reason it was overlooked is that, yes, you did go a bit outside the usual cha

Re: PATCH: Countdown to 20120422

2012-04-20 Thread Colin Campbell
On 12-04-20 12:36 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: Il 20/04/2012 04:31, Colin Campbell ha scritto: Echoing Graham's comment on the pace of development slowing, we have no patches to push, none on countdown and none to review. Hi Colin, can you please tell me if it's normal that my patch has been ig

Re: announcing things like Mike's tour in News column?

2012-04-20 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > What about a news item about Enseble 101's tour? It seems reasonable > to me; a short notice without "advertisement content" (i.e. without > that Kickstarter part i guess) shouldn't be offensive, and it could > link to appropriate productions entry and/or Ensemble 101 web

Re: announcing things like Mike's tour in News column? (was: 30 day webathon...)

2012-04-20 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Apr 20, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > What about a news item about Enseble 101's tour? It seems reasonable > to me; a short notice without "advertisement content" (i.e. without > that Kickstarter part i guess) shouldn't be offensive, and it could > link to appropriate productions e

announcing things like Mike's tour in News column? (was: 30 day webathon...)

2012-04-20 Thread Janek Warchoł
What about a news item about Enseble 101's tour? It seems reasonable to me; a short notice without "advertisement content" (i.e. without that Kickstarter part i guess) shouldn't be offensive, and it could link to appropriate productions entry and/or Ensemble 101 website to give more info. Actuall

Re: 30 day webathon for kickstarter support (issue 6068045)

2012-04-20 Thread dak
On 2012/04/19 22:25:17, mike_apollinemike.com wrote: The real-estate value of the upper right corner of http://lilypond.org is huge. Currently it is unexploited property, just sitting there. If there are people who can offer LilyPond-friendly exchanges for it that fulfill the criteria of

Re: Footnote documentation error

2012-04-20 Thread David Kastrup
James writes: > Hello, > > On 20 April 2012 00:40, Nick Payne wrote: >> The documentation at >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/creating-footnotes for >> both automatic and manual footnotes says that the \footnote command must >> come *before* the grob to which the footnote