Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > Hi all, I'm back.
Excellent news that could not have come at a better time. > So, are there any vacancies on the Bug Squad? I vaguely fear so. In spite of the Bug Squad's importance I've been lousy at keeping track of it and motivating people. So I suspect people dropped out of the Squad silently because of not feeling useful or appreciated. I sure hope my vague handwavy impression will be proven wrong here... > I've signed up for sourceforge (username: gperciva). Other than that, > my primary interest remains in organization / mentoring new > contributors. Has anything changed in regards to that in the past > four years? Organization/mentoring have not been done in an organized manner but by people picking up requests and pieces as they saw fit. Or not. > Or shall I jump straight in? I see that "Contributor 1.4 Mentors" > hasn't changed. The organizational sections of the documentation have not seen much of an update. More work has been invested in what one may call the self-help material. You'll probably be able to pick up annoyingly close to where you stepped off. > Anything else I should know? I've skimmed the past month of this > mailing list. Translations are not up to date apart from Romance languages: French, Italian, Catalan are kept up pretty actively. > (I was planning on waiting until the new year, but David's news > made me re-evaluate my health now, and I think I have the energy > to take on more stuff. To make a long story short: depression, > burnout, quit academia, moved back to Vancouver, recovery. Also, > started ballroom and swing dancing! Great fun, absolutely > recommended, *especially* for other shy, socially anxious computer > geeks. Despite that help, I'm still not 100% recovered, but I'm > content with my progress, and I think that doing more volunteer > work will help.) Well, it will certainly be welcome. Just keep tabs on how you are faring. You'll have one nay-sayer less around, but LilyPond is still not a lightweight to swing about. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
