Thank you, Andrew! Of course I can assist especially with the edition-engraver and the lalily-templates ;-)
Jan-Peter Am 11.10.20 um 11:19 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > To all interested in OLL. as I am starting this anew, in effect, I am > at the moment considering moving to Gitlab instead of Github. There is > precedent for this - lilypond is there! (not that that is directly > related to OLL). The current github organisation has been orphaned as > far as I can see, and for me to do the work and make the improvements > I see I prefer to move to Gitlab, so I can have complete management > control. Likewise, openlilylib.org has been removed, and I have > registered openlilylib.space and I am building a new website today, > which will have documentation, a blog, and support material and so on, > and anything else people may want. > > My career has been in UNIX software development and IT Enterprise > Architecture. I am critically aware of the impact that changes can > have on people and existing code. However, I have been unhappy, as an > end user, with OLL git being fragmented into a number of repos. This > makes it harder than need be for beginners and people, and part of the > whole reason I am taking this on is to enhance the uptake and utility > for lilypond users, so I want to unify the work into one repo. There's > no criticism of what is there, but I think it 'just grew'. Now, making > a change like this would mean people will have to re-org their code a > bit, but on reflection I don't think this is a big deal or a big job, > and to move forward sometimes breaking changes need to be made. > > I will of course keep all the very valuable existing code modules - > nothing will change there, except I will complete the move to make all > the snippets package compliant modules. > > Changes like this often cause an uproar, but the existing github will > still be around, and people can move as and when they see fit, and all > new development and contributions should occur on the new Gitlab repo. > [It's not ready yet - I only started in on this with definite intent > today.] > > Andrew >
