Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
2013/12/17 Noeck <address@hidden>:
I have to emphasize once more that the real work has been done by
Nathan Ho. I just included it to oll. He also wrote the README.
Contact with him also showed how LP loses skilled contributors: He
didn't get a single reply to his mail about this. That made him stop
working on it. Now I stay in contact and he got back his enthusiasm
about it, did the update to Bravura 0.7 and wants to go on.
Nathan, i am very sorry about the fact that your email in October
didn't get any replies. I saw it back then and was interested in it
(actually i wanted to include it in openlilylib/snippets myself, after
trying it out), but i didn't find time to look at it in detail, and it
kept slipping from my head... I apologize, and i feel personally
responsible for your discouragement. Unfortunately, in LilyPond
community so many things are happening that it's nigh impossible to
keep up with everything, and we sometimes forget to appreciate
contributors for what they do. I'm sorry about it.
Well, if you take a look at things like
<URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3723>, the
amount of feedback is, uh, underwhelming. It focuses on indentation
(I have to admit, though, that I had forgotten about Werner expressing
his opinion that this is a move in the right direction).
Since the patch series _vastly_ simplifies the grammar while extending
and regularizing its functionality, this is somewhat amusing. But then
it is not entirely unexpected.
We had several other projects where pretty much a single person carried
the day, like support for Kievan chant. Ot certainly takes a lot of
persistence until private projects without particular interest to other
currently active core developers will be integrated in LilyPond proper.
Thanks for what you did! It's awesome! Hopefully now that it's
included in openlilylib/snippets
(http://github.com/openlilylib/snippets/tree/master/custom-music-fonts/smufl)
it won't get lost, and updating it should be simple.
Still needs to be done by somebody.