On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Graham Percival <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a bunch of "ease-of-use" items that have a standard "50 euro > or double an existing bounty" from Valentin. Since I'm pretty certain > he's in the worst financial situation of any lilypond developer, I > personally would take this with a grain of salt.
Your guess may (or may not) be accurate; when I wrote that I certainly wasn't expecting to ever have to double a €2000 fee :-) Whilst giving away €50 is certainly not something I can afford several times a week, I already donated that kind of money on several occasions (I once even paid a LilyPond developer ten times that amount for one single feature). Some developers prefer us to donate to charities instead, and that's fine too -- as long as the LilyPond project keeps moving forward on a big-picture level. > There's a US$300 bounty for musicxml export, which is extremely low > given the work involved. > > There's a EUR 400 bounty from Francisco and Valentin for a "better" > editor for windows to replace lilypad. It's not quite clear what > people want to see that lilypondtool / Frescobaldi don't offer (other > than "comes with GUB"). I'd be cautious about this offer as well, > since it's not at all clear what they want, nor what we would be > willing to accept in GUB. That would probably be a cross-platform lightweight editor (I'd say, a 500Ko binary when statically compiled), probably based on Scintilla and guile-gtk. It may even include a lightweight PDF-viewing component based on Ghostscript (only if it doesn't add dependencies). The whole point is to make it a part of the standard GUB LilyPond distribution eventually, please do not rebut this just yet :-) See http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/LilyPond_GUI We should certainly extend and emphasize the bounty system. Some of us, particularly in France, are working on this. Hopefully we'll have good news in a few months. Cheers, Valentin. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
