Re: we now have "lilypond" organization on GitHub

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:40:05AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> > The experience from the Grand Documentation Project is that only
> > 25% of new doc contributors ended up being a net benefit.  Having
> > an up-front hurdle, provided that it's well-explained, is a useful
> > way to weed out people who are likely to fall into the remaining
> > 75%.
> 
> But indeed a valid other strategy would be to have the 75% have little
> to no upfront cost.  That's one of the reasons we have a Contributor's
> Guide.

Reviewing patches?  Explaining why we reject a patch (I don't
think we can fairly reject a patch unless we explain why)?  Those
are significant costs.

- Graham