Hi Nicolas
Unfortunately Mutopia is a staled project. The last commit in the
repository was made three years ago and there are several pull requests
waiting to be reviewed and merged:
https://github.com/MutopiaProject/MutopiaProject
The main problem is finding some people willing to do all the hard work
required to keep the project alive: reviewing contributions on Github,
maintain the infrastructure, etc.
I'm against forking this project in any way. I think we should keep
using Github (or similar public platforms) instead of privately owned
servers. I'm sure that the old maintainers would be happy to give write
permissions to persons who can show to have the skills and the will to
take it over.
A couple of years ago I would have liked to do something for Mutopia...
now I don't have time at all.
Your ideas look very interesting, but there are many many issues to be
solved and IMO the translation is the last problem.
Contributing to Mutopia in an "active" way (i.e. submitting pull
requests on Github) requires English. Anyway, I do not recommend
contributing to Mutopia until the project has been taken over by a new
(or old) maintainer.
I don't want to sound discouraging, but I think you should be aware of
the current situation.
Thanks
Federico
Il giorno lun 5 dic 2022 alle 19:09:26 +0100, Nicolas Pettiaux
<nico...@pettiaux.be> ha scritto:
Dear all,
I have been a long time promoter of free culture, free software and
related topix (more than 25 years) and I am now at least beginning to
read and play music myself, so I want to contribute more to Mutopia.
I also happen to live with a professional pianist who is also the
director of a Belgian, French speaking « académie de musique » (in
La Hulpe) and I would very much like her 500 students and about 40
teachers to be able to use and contribute to Mutopia.
This implies that the project be also in French.
I also think that if the project was available natively in many
languages, it would help with the participations of many different
public.
I therefore propose to help with
the hosting of a copy of the mutopia project in Belgium if it is
possible any help towards the translation to French, including
translations of many pages. But for it to be efficent, I think that
tools using the gettext suite should be put in place eg. po4a, as
well as the use of modern communication such as a channel (if it does
not exist yet) within element.io (that I have not seen advertised)
like many other free software projects.
I hope to read you soon,
Best regards,
Nicolas
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