Hi, On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Francisco Vila wrote:
> 2009/4/21 Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima <[email protected]>: > > > I would like to know if there is any progress about this topic. How is > > it going? (is it going?) > > Are you talking about > > - the LilyPond article on Wikipedia > - the LilyPond plugin for mediawiki > > There was an interesting project in http://draft.wikilily.org but it > is currently unreachable. I think Helder was talking about my MediaWiki extension I posted a full four years ago (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189). Basically, it allows you to work on music collaboratively, using the MediaWiki engine, and the LilyPond syntax inside <lilypond>...</lilypond> or <lilybook>...</lilybook> tags. I was less than impressed by the speed the MediaWiki people showed at picking up that pretty simple extension, and when they finally said something -- years later -- they mumbled something about security concerns. Unfortunately, this upset me so much that I wrote rather scathing remark that if they are concerned about security (think DOS and Scheme), they should not speculate, but ask on the Lilypond list instead -- it is Open Source, people are willing to help. Needless to say, the MediaWiki big-whigs never showed up here. I think their concern that Scheme is needed to do anything useful is unfounded, and that Scheme just should be disabled for the purpose of the MediaWiki extension. But frankly, they annoyed me so much, and it Works Here, so I decided to stop bothering and work with other people on other stuff, both of which gives me more fun. Oh, and it seems that a lot of lobbying went on to push ABC notation, even if we all know how ABC output looks. I am really not impressed when politics take over Open Source projects, so I am out of the game. Ciao, Dscho _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
