Re: we now have "lilypond" organization on GitHub

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/9/22 Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>:
> 2013/9/22 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
>> IMHO this is solving a problem that doesn't exist.  Using LilyDev (possibly
>> in a Virtual Machine) provides git and git-cl.  Git allows a developer to
>> create a patch with 2 commands: git commit and git format-patch.  That can
>> be uploaded to Rietveld with a single command (possibly 2 commands,
>> depending on what you were doing earlier).  When the review is passed, it
>> can be pushed to staging with 4 simple commands; or mailed to -devel for any
>> active developer without push access - these are very rare.
>>
>> How hard is that?
>
> Hard.  It takes at least an hour (more probably 2 hours) to install
> all this stuff and find and read relevant information (when i was
> installing lilydev my first time, it took me half of the night).  And
> don't forget additional 5 GB of space you need for the VM, and that
> you have to use a completely new, unfamiliar environment (i.e. a new
> OS).
>
> Compare it to something like github (i'm not saying we should use
> github, that's just an example) when it takes 2 minutes and you can do
> everything in your browser (obviously, i'm speaking about small
> patches).  To me, the difference is obvious.

Note that i'm speaking about how hard it is for new contributors.  If
we want to have them, it would be good to make contributing easy for
them.
Janek