Re: Supporting my work on LilyPond financially

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/11/30 Mike Solomon <address@hidden>:
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> On Nov 30, 2013, at 12:06 AM, Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> 2013/11/29 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
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>>> But one person who just works on LilyPond can make a difference.  Can we
>>> keep this up?
>>
>> As you can see, it appears that David (address@hidden) is doing abou
>> as much as the rest of the development team combined!
>>
>
> I would argue that the point that Janek brings up above is not a healthy sign 
> for LilyPond development.  Several developers, including myself, have lowered 
> their participation considerably over the past two years.

That's true.  However, i think this is mostly independent from David
and funding his work: it's not like he's taking work away from us.  He
specializes in a very particular area (syntax, parser, user
interfaces, removing exceptions and weird stuff) whille other people
usually worked on formatting code (like skylines, guitar bends, slurs,
etc).

As for the money, for me personally the fact that David is getting
paid doesn't make any difference with regard to my motivation to work
as a volunteer.  But maybe for someone this makes a difference.

The only way that i see in which David influences development is that
he doesn't allow bad code during reviews, and it's hard to write good
code when there's a lot of bad code and architectural problems already
in the codebase (at least that's how the situation looks for me).

> In my opinion, it would benefit LilyPond, and David too, if there were more 
> skilled volunteer developers working on the project.

Well, that's obvious.  I was thinking about this myself, and i'm doing
the only thing that i can do: becoming skilled myself...

I was trying to get some students do LilyPond work as undergraduate
project, and there was a bit of interest, but not enough.

best,
Janek