Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 08/11/2021 à 21:13, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond 
development a écrit :
> Am Sonntag, dem 07.11.2021 um 15:59 -0500 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
> > Hi Jonas,
> >
> > > "Defect" is for problems within the "core program",
> > > which means either C++ or Scheme. I would argue that those two are not
> > > really separable in most cases
> > Does that mean for someone like me — with a fighting chance of Scheme-ing, but 
> > very little chance of ever C++-ing — there are very few [non-documentation] 
> > issues I can likely fix?
> Not necessarily, let me elaborate what I had in mind when I wrote the
> above; for the record, I'm referring to issues as reports from users
> saying that something crashes / broke / isn't working as expected.
> For those issues, I think a fair amount will actually require C++
> knowledge; if not for fixing, then at least for understanding how many
> of the internals are working and how Scheme fits in. This is not to say
> that there are none that are entirely solvable in Scheme, but that it
> will be hard to stamp them as such without going 80% of the way to
> solve them.
>
> The story may be a bit different for new features where it's about
> adding new code.
>
> My 2 cents, others might disagree.


I agree. I would add that

1. It's hard to see if a random issue taken out of
   the 1000 will require C++ or not, but it's not hard
   to find a few in all that meeting this criterion;
2. Tracker issues are an aid for us, not an ultimate
   goal; there is a lot that you can do to improve
   Scheme and pure-LilyPond code (features, but also
   interfaces, quality, architecture, etc.);
3. I believe you are a bit quick in believing you
   will never, ever be able to write C++ code ;-)

Best,
Jean