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Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052)
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Graham Percival |
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Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052) |
Date: |
Fri, 4 Nov 2011 15:13:50 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:52:32PM +0000, Adam Spiers wrote:
> Hey, give yourselves some credit - at least you're not using CVS;
> *that's* what I would label as dark ages :-) git is still relatively
> new for many many people. Also, being short on experience doesn't
> make it impossible, it just means it will take a bit longer to get
> there.
Yes and no. Suppose you're a windows users. Suppose you notice a
few typos in the lilypond documentation. Suppose you want to be
helpful and actually fix it instead of just filing a bug report to
bring out attention to the typos.
The *shortest / easiest* method we have for those people is:
- install virtualbox
- download lilydev
- use a simplified graphical lily-git.tcl to get our source
- edit files in gedit
- compile the docs inside the virtual machine
- commit and create patch using the simplified graphical lily-git.tcl
- send patch by email
When most people look at those steps -- which again, is the
easiest method we have, after continually looking and revamping
this process over the past three years -- they either give up
part-way, or just never start. If the task appears to be too
hard, it's not a question of time+effort; most people (sensibly)
just give up.
> Sure, it can be improved, but I don't think it's
> worth beating ourselves up about it either.
I'm not beating myself up -- but when I see people spending
literally dozens of hours on tasks that could be automated with
1-3 hours of programming, I hardly think that optimism is the
appropriate response. :(
> I don't know Patchy, but I agree it certainly sounds like a lot of
> this work could be automated.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration
Incidently, the latest round of panic is because I switched to
ubuntu oneiric 11.10 instead of staying on 10.04 LTS. I wanted
the gcc 4.6 toolchain for my Vivi work, but that's caused a huge
ripple of disruption in lilypond. Other than setting up a
separate computer for lilypond (or maybe dual-booting between
ubuntu 10.04 and 11.10), I can't think of how we could have
avoided this particular mess.
- Graham
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), (continued)
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), Adam Spiers, 2011/11/04
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), Carl Sorensen, 2011/11/04
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), David Kastrup, 2011/11/04
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), Adam Spiers, 2011/11/04
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), Carl Sorensen, 2011/11/04
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), Graham Percival, 2011/11/04
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), Adam Spiers, 2011/11/04
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052),
Graham Percival <=
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), Adam Spiers, 2011/11/04
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), Graham Percival, 2011/11/04
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), Carl Sorensen, 2011/11/03
- Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), Adam Spiers, 2011/11/03
Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), adam . spiers, 2011/11/06
Re: changes in chord names formatting (1503, 1572) (issue 4981052), adam . spiers, 2011/11/07