Re: hurdles for contributors (was: help wanted, I mean it)

2009-07-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:33 AM Hmm, maybe we could set up a pyramid scheme here. Trevor handles git for two new contributors, then in a few months, each of those people learn git and handles it for for two more new contributors, etc. :) Happy to do that - Mark is just

Re: hurdles for contributors (was: help wanted, I mean it)

2009-07-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:11:38AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > I've not been so active in LP doc work recently as I'm > migrating a choral website I maintain to php 5 and xml, > and I can't leave it in a half-completed state for long. > I wish I could simply upload my changes to the hosting >

Re: hurdles for contributors (was: help wanted, I mean it)

2009-07-11 Thread Tim McNamara
On Jul 11, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Trevor Daniels wrote: When that's finished I shall get back to the LM, as I promised. For that, I'd be happy for contributors to send me small changes as straight text, but any major changes would have to contain texinfo mark-up. There would be no need for contribu

Re: hurdles for contributors (was: help wanted, I mean it)

2009-07-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Saturday, July 11, 2009 12:30 AM On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 05:50:54PM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: I'm sorry to say it but there are an awful lot of hurdles to get over in learning to use LilyPond and then even more in trying to contribute to it. I think I see why there are

Re: hurdles for contributors (was: help wanted, I mean it)

2009-07-10 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/7/11 Graham Percival : > I've bitterly cursed the move to git ever since it happened.  :( > > I don't mind asking contributors to learn a bit of texinfo, since > 95% of the time, they don't need to actually use any texinfo > commands; they can just edit the text in the file.  And, as > Jonatha