Re: Sending around contexts

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Kieren,

> Is there any technical reason this kind of thing shouldn’t be in the codebase, 
> with the end-goal to replace the current “Piano with centred dynamics” 
> template/mechanism with a \with-driven improvement?
>
> If it’s simply ;) a matter of getting the code polished up and pushed through 
> the submission process, I’d love to work with Lukas (or whomever) to make this 
> my first patch…

Well, based on my recent experience with \after, I think it might be 
reasonable to develop and test something like that outside of the 
regular codebase, in order to see how it fares in everyday heavy use. 
(To be honest, it's not clear to me yet what you're describing.) Often, 
one of the harder questions is the degree of generality one should 
strive for.

As soon as the basic idea and implementation have stabilized, the task 
of turning an addition into a merge request is actually very smooth a) 
due to the move to GitLab and b) due to the incredibly helpful people in 
the development team. My first real contribution (a slight improvement 
of the figured bass feature) was in a working, but clearly half-baked 
and not well thought-out state when I first proposed it, and the 
comments and ideas given (especially) by Jean were of tremendous help in 
elevating it to a level adequate for an addition to the main codebase.

Of course I'd love to help, but I should warn that I'm clearly the least 
experienced of all the people with merge privileges (which I only 
obtained a few weeks ago). On the other hand, the great thing about this 
development model is that you never have to rely on one person alone.

Lukas