Re: LSR and Documentation/snippets/new

[Thomas Morley]

Am Sa., 7. Mai 2022 um 00:36 Uhr schrieb Thomas Morley
<thomasmorley65@gmail.com>:
>
> Folks,
>
> currently I'm updating all LSR-files to work with 2.22.
> One step is
> CG 7.7 Updating the LSR to a new version
> [...]
> 5. Copy relevant snippets (i.e. snippets whose version is equal to or
> less than the new version of LilyPond running on the LSR) from
> ‘Documentation/snippets/new/’ into the set of files to be used to make
> the tarball.
> [...]
>
> I've found that the majority of those files in
> ‘Documentation/snippets/new/’ _don't_ _need_ to_ _be_ there_!
> They could have been changed through LSR's web-interface.
> Changing \set instrumentName ... to \with { instrumentName ... }
> worked forever (more or less). Code cleanup for empty lines (missing
> or superfluous), code indentation, etc, etc
>
> Nothing of above warrants a new snippet.
>
> Please stop doing so, please first test, whether it compiles with
> current LSR-version, and please update the snippet _inside_ LSR. If
> you don't have an account please create one. Or please ask me, Pierre,
> Werner and others with permission to do so.
>
>
> Otherwise it exents the workload of the LSR-updater, not pretty for my
> motivation... LSR has currently already 896 files to be maintained!

And, please, _never ever_ introduce a snippet with not matching
doctitle/filename.

Thanks,
  Harm