can anyone work on Lyric bounties (GSoC, etc.)?

2013-12-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, A large proportion of my compositions and arrangements include voice. There are certain (one might almost say “many”) things about Lily’s vocal engraving engine that need fixing. Hence I was very excited when Janek took that part of Lily on during his Google Summer of Code stint.

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread Marc Hohl
have to precede the addition of feature X. Bounties could end up complicating the logical development of Lilypond if they end up causing piecemeal development. +1 I think that the bounty model for special features won't work (yet). The bounites drop in from time to time, and it is not clearly

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread Shevek
: http://old.nabble.com/Bounties-%28was%3A-User-vs-Developer%29-tp33197679p33199937.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
- about which I know nothing- would have to precede the addition of feature X. Bounties could end up complicating the logical development of Lilypond if they end up causing piecemeal development. +1 I think that the bounty model for special features won't work (yet). The bounites drop in from

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 25.01.2012 11:01, schrieb David Kastrup: Marc Hohlm...@hohlart.de writes: [...] I don't know about legal and organizational issues, but what about a optional lilypond usage fee? fee has a bad ring to it. Ok, this was not the appropriate word - replace it with whatever you think is

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread Tim McNamara
, but groundwork U V and W- about which I know nothing- would have to precede the addition of feature X. Bounties could end up complicating the logical development of Lilypond if they end up causing piecemeal development. +1 I think that the bounty model for special features won't work (yet

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net writes: It is quite possible that the Lilypond team doesn't want to have to set up accounting and disbursement mechanisms, however. There are some headaches and legalities that would be involved which might be more trouble than they are worth. That is the

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
have to precede the addition of feature X. Bounties could end up complicating the logical development of Lilypond if they end up causing piecemeal development. There certainly is a case for bounties as well. Bounties _tend_ to be raller on the smallish side compared with actual development efforts

Re: Bounties

2012-01-25 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Ok, let's take the guitar string bend stuff as an example: I think that Lilypond would benefit *a lot* if this feature were implemented. Tuxguitar can export .ly files, but without the bend stuff. A skilled programmer should be able to implement this for,

Bounties (was: User vs Developer)

2012-01-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
I think that bounties will never have significant impact on Lily development if we don't organize them. It's because writing code is very expensive ($200-500 for a nontrivial patch?) compared to money average user can spend (few can afford $100 i think). I am serious: there are at least 20 issues

Re: Bounties

2012-01-24 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: I think that bounties will never have significant impact on Lily development if we don't organize them. It's because writing code is very expensive ($200-500 for a nontrivial patch?) compared to money average user can spend (few can afford $100

Re: Bounties

2012-01-24 Thread Tim McNamara
. Bounties could end up complicating the logical development of Lilypond if they end up causing piecemeal development. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: bounties

2010-06-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
On 06/17/2010 03:35 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote: The main obstacle, of course, being the international essence of the project, whereas non-profit organisations, bank accounts, etc. are usually conceived in a nation-centric perspective. What are the particular problems there? Is it just

Re: bounties

2010-06-20 Thread Bernardo Barros
The donation idea is pretty good. That't pretty ok with GNU philosophy BTW. Think of the Free Software Foundation. Ardour has a way of doing this, it has one main developers and it seems that who contribute more to the project have more priority in the suggestion of requested features. Of course

Re: bounties

2010-06-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op donderdag 17-06-2010 om 15:35 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Valentin Villenave: As I mentioned in the other thread, there are plans to build such an organization in France, from scratch (another possibility would be to revive the (Netherlands-based?) LilyPond foundation, but we'd need more

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Marc Hohl
, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: [...] I am considering to offer commercial support and may be able to do that on a part-time basis. However, working on two bounties has illustrated that bounty work can be quite tricky. Indeed; there's almost no relationship between the amount of work required

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: (I wouldn't surely be the ideal person for founding a lilypond users group), I am willing to spend a fee, say $50 a year, for supporting the lilypond development. If there are 99 people more (and I think there are a lot more!),

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Editions IN NOMINE
Hi. I thought one could order pieces of improvment (it's been a long time since I read something on it...). The idea is : I pay for my personnel need, and the improvment is put back in the community. This question strikes me because I've just beginning to set up shop as an editor, and I've

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread David Stocker
If you haven't already, have a look at Ardour's subscription page http://ardour.org/why_subscribe This may be a viable answer. At one time, I was a subscriber, contributing $4.00US per month via automated paypal withdrawl. $4.00/mo is pretty painless when you lump it in with your other

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:24 PM, David Stocker dstoc...@notesettersinc.com wrote: I think LilyPond has a dedicated base of users who would be glad to contribute resources in a concrete and structured way. It might be worth considering. I agree. Paying a 'subscription' for Lilypond usage would

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Marek Klein
2010/6/17 Christ van Willegen cvwille...@gmail.com On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:24 PM, David Stocker dstoc...@notesettersinc.com wrote: I think LilyPond has a dedicated base of users who would be glad to contribute resources in a concrete and structured way. It might be worth considering.

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Editions IN NOMINE
so +1 The question is : how is it used, what for, and by who ? It may sound an odd question, but I can assure you that in France, such questions of transparency ARE NOT that obvious. I think each list shouild have its contributors ? Cheers JM Marek Klein a écrit : 2010/6/17 Christ van

Re: bounties

2010-06-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2010/6/17 Valentin Villenave v.villen...@gmail.com: Absolutely. That's why I've always said that we should have something like a bounty thermometer (such as the one they use for Blender's open movies IIRC, or http://haikuware.com/bounties/ as well). Agree. At this time there is nothing

bounties

2010-06-15 Thread Graham Percival
bounties I am considering to offer commercial support and may be able to do that on a part-time basis. However, working on two bounties has illustrated that bounty work can be quite tricky. Indeed; there's almost no relationship between the amount of work required and the amount of money being

Re: bounties

2010-06-15 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Percival gra...@percival-music.ca Subject: bounties To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org, LilyPond Development     lilypond-de...@gnu.org Message-ID: 20100615191934.gb10...@sapphire Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:25:27PM +0200

Bounties - was [Re: Feature request - contemporary trill indications]

2005-07-01 Thread Jamie Bullock
Something like the Gnome bounties system perhaps? See - http://www.gnome.org/bounties/index.html for details. Jamie On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 19:02 +0200, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Thursday 30 June 2005 13.14, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: If you're willing to pay for the development, I could implement