Re: Presentation: "Publisher-grade LilyPond" in Ottawa

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Boris Shingarov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 06/09/2010 10:52 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>> Uh, am I by now in everybody's killfile
>
> I do not know why you keep saying these things, but to avoid any
> misunderstanding I must publicly state that David is in the top half-dozen
> on *my* list of most respected LilyPond people.

That may well be the case, but at the time of those replies, David
could not possibly be considered to be a "lilypond developer".  He did
not have git access; his accepted patches accounted for less than 1%
of our code base, there were rather obvious disagreements between
established members and him.

You can certainly characterize the development community as
overworked, or even as "struggling".  But I do not think it is fair to
characterize us based on David's responses.


> The request, with the bounty offered, did not even make it into
> the bug-tracker.

I did a quick search for "Boris" and "bounty" on bug-lilypond,
lilypond-devel, and lilypond-user, and I only found posts from this
very thread.
I did, however, find issue 737:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=737
although this doesn't give any kind of estimate on the amount of bounty offered.

I believe the highest bounty so far was 250 euro, back in the days
when Han-Wen was working full-time and Trevor Baca was requesting many
new features.  We're now starting to see bounties attracting attention
again, so perhaps if you give an exact figure, somebody might start
working on it.  Or at the very least, it will hopefully make it into
the tracker.

We've had very obvious problems with issues getting lost before they
get to the tracker; I have abandoned my work on the new website in
order to work on the Bug Squad.

- Graham