can anyone work on Lyric bounties (GSoC, etc.)?

2013-12-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, A large proportion of my compositions and arrangements include voice. There are certain (one might almost say “many”) things about Lily’s vocal engraving engine that need fixing. Hence I was very excited when Janek took that part of Lily on during his Google Summer of Code stint. How

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Ok, let's take the guitar string bend stuff as an example: I think > that Lilypond would benefit *a lot* if this feature were implemented. > Tuxguitar can export .ly files, but without the bend stuff. > > A skilled programmer should be able to implement this for, say, 300$. >

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
precede the addition > of feature X. Bounties could end up complicating the logical > development of Lilypond if they end up causing piecemeal development. There certainly is a case for bounties as well. Bounties _tend_ to be raller on the smallish side compared with actual development ef

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
Tim McNamara writes: > It is quite possible that the Lilypond team doesn't want to have to > set up accounting and disbursement mechanisms, however. There are > some headaches and legalities that would be involved which might be > more trouble than they are worth. That is the current problem.

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread Tim McNamara
t want feature X, but groundwork U V and W- about which I >> know nothing- would have to precede the addition of feature X. Bounties >> could end up complicating the logical development of Lilypond if they end up >> causing piecemeal development. > +1 > > I think that

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 25.01.2012 11:01, schrieb David Kastrup: Marc Hohl writes: [...] I don't know about legal and organizational issues, but what about a optional lilypond usage fee? "fee" has a bad ring to it. Ok, this was not the appropriate word - replace it with whatever you think is reasonable. We are

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
> and W- about which I know nothing- would have to precede the addition > of feature X. Bounties could end up complicating the logical > development of Lilypond if they end up causing piecemeal development. > +1 > > I think that the bounty model for special features won't work &

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread Shevek
ly. Saul -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Bounties-%28was%3A-User-vs-Developer%29-tp33197679p33199937.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread Marc Hohl
have to precede the addition of feature X. Bounties could end up complicating the logical development of Lilypond if they end up causing piecemeal development. +1 I think that the bounty model for special features won't work (yet). The bounites drop in from time to time, and it is not cl

Re: Bounties

2012-01-24 Thread Tim McNamara
. Bounties could end up complicating the logical development of Lilypond if they end up causing piecemeal development. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Bounties

2012-01-24 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > I think that bounties will never have significant impact on Lily > development if we don't organize them. It's because writing code is > very expensive ($200-500 for a nontrivial patch?) compared to money > average user can spend (few can afford

Bounties (was: User vs Developer)

2012-01-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
I think that bounties will never have significant impact on Lily development if we don't organize them. It's because writing code is very expensive ($200-500 for a nontrivial patch?) compared to money average user can spend (few can afford $100 i think). I am serious: there are at least

Re: bounties

2010-06-20 Thread Bernardo Barros
The donation idea is pretty good. That't pretty ok with GNU philosophy BTW. Think of the Free Software Foundation. Ardour has a way of doing this, it has one main developers and it seems that who contribute more to the project have more priority in the suggestion of requested features. Of course c

Re: bounties

2010-06-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
On 06/17/2010 03:35 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote: > The main obstacle, of course, being the international essence of the > project, whereas non-profit organisations, bank accounts, etc. are > usually conceived in a nation-centric perspective. What are the particular problems there? Is it just thi

Re: bounties

2010-06-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op donderdag 17-06-2010 om 15:35 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Valentin Villenave: > As I mentioned in the other thread, there are plans to build such an > organization in France, from scratch (another possibility would be to > revive the (Netherlands-based?) LilyPond foundation, but we'd need > m

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2010/6/17 Valentin Villenave : > Absolutely. That's why I've always said that we should have something > like a "bounty thermometer" (such as the one they use for Blender's > open movies IIRC, or http://haikuware.com/bounties/ as well). Agree. At this tim

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Editions IN NOMINE
so +1 The question is : how is it used, what for, and by who ? It may sound an odd question, but I can assure you that in France, such questions of transparency ARE NOT that obvious. I think each list shouild have its contributors ? Cheers JM Marek Klein a écrit : 2010/6/17 Christ van Wil

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Marek Klein
2010/6/17 Christ van Willegen > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:24 PM, David Stocker > wrote: > > I think > > LilyPond has a dedicated base of users who would be glad to contribute > > resources in a concrete and structured way. It might be worth > considering. > > I agree. Paying a 'subscription' for

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:24 PM, David Stocker wrote: > I think > LilyPond has a dedicated base of users who would be glad to contribute > resources in a concrete and structured way. It might be worth considering. I agree. Paying a 'subscription' for Lilypond usage would suit me just fine. Chris

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread David Stocker
If you haven't already, have a look at Ardour's subscription page http://ardour.org/why_subscribe This may be a viable answer. At one time, I was a subscriber, contributing $4.00US per month via automated paypal withdrawl. $4.00/mo is pretty painless when you lump it in with your other busines

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Editions IN NOMINE
Hi. I thought one could order "pieces of improvment" (it's been a long time since I read something on it...). The idea is : I pay for my personnel need, and the improvment is put back in the community. This question strikes me because I've just beginning to set up shop as an editor, and I've

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Marc Hohl wrote: > (I wouldn't surely be the ideal person for founding a lilypond > users group), I am willing to spend a fee, say $50 a year, for > supporting the lilypond development. If there are 99 people more > (and I think there are a lot more!), we would hav

Re: bounties

2010-06-16 Thread Marc Hohl
27PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: [...] > I am considering to offer commercial support and may be able to do > that on a part-time basis. However, working on two bounties has > illustrated that bounty work can be quite tricky. Indeed; there's almost no relationship between the amo

Re: bounties

2010-06-15 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
om: Graham Percival Subject: bounties To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org, LilyPond Development     Message-ID: <20100615191934.gb10...@sapphire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:25:27PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op dinsdag 15-0

bounties

2010-06-15 Thread Graham Percival
7;t enough people offering > > bounties > > I am considering to offer commercial support and may be able to do > that on a part-time basis. However, working on two bounties has > illustrated that bounty work can be quite tricky. Indeed; there's almost no relationship betw

Bounties - was [Re: Feature request - contemporary trill indications]

2005-07-01 Thread Jamie Bullock
Something like the Gnome bounties system perhaps? See - http://www.gnome.org/bounties/index.html for details. Jamie On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 19:02 +0200, Erik Sandberg wrote: > On Thursday 30 June 2005 13.14, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > If you're willing to pay for the develo