Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno ven 23 ott 2015 alle 15:19, Federico Bruni 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> I agree, but I think that we can easily improve the situation. A few 
> simple ideas:
>
> 1) DOWNLOAD PAGE
> What's the most viewed page in the website (excluding the home)? 
> Probably the download page:
> http://lilypond.org/website/download.html
>
> Let's add there a big Note saying something like: "Our most active 
> main developer David Kastrup is working full-time on LilyPond 
> development and need your support to make a living. If you use and 
> love LilyPond, please allow David to continue his precious work by 
> contributing whatever amount of money you can afford. [link to 
> Community>Sponsoring page]"
>
> 2) SPONSORING PAGE
> I can guess without looking at 'git log' that the sponsoring page was 
> written by Graham :-)
> It does not encourage any donation, right? The feeling is very 
> different from what we are reading in many replies in this thread. 
> Maybe it's time to change it a little bit?
>
> 3) GITSTATS
> The gitstats linked in the sponsoring pages are a great idea but they 
> are out-of-date (november 2012). Any chance to keep them up-to-date 
> automatically?
> Also, I'd rather link to the Authors tab:
> http://lilypond.org/~graham/gitstats-3months/AUTHORS.html
>
> gitstats is just a python script. Who has access to the server may 
> just set up a cron job to create the stats every X days:
> https://github.com/hoxu/gitstats/blob/master/doc/INSTALL

Actually, it can be even run within 'make doc'. I've just run and it 
compiles the stats of 2015 in 40 seconds:

$ time gitstats -c processes=2 -c start_date=1/1/2015 lilypond-git 
lilypond-gitstats-2015
[...]
real    0m40.352s

$ du -h lilypond-gitstats-2015
612K    lilypond-gitstats-2015

I'll move the discussion to @bug-lilypond


Last idea:

4) David reports on lilypondblog.org

If Urs and David agree, the past and future development logs of David - 
if David wants to keep them up - may be published on lilypondblog.org 
and made available to anyone, not only to the people who supported him 
during these years.
We may use some special tag for these reports and link to it from the 
sponsoring page.
I volunteer for converting the texinfo (?) source of these reports to 
any format needed for Wordpress, trusting the great power of pandoc :)