On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:14:33PM +0200, Łukasz Czerwiński wrote: > I know that this is not a very positive message, but I am trying > to save you yet more anguish. Â The lilypond project currently does > not even function smoothly between senior developers with more > than 100 commits each; there is very little chance for a new > contributor to have a smooth and pleasant time helping us. > > Oh, I didn't know about that. I'm reading some Lilypond mails and they > made me the impression that you *urge* new contributors.
Some people encourage new contributors. I encourage new contributors who want to work on administrative tasks. I try to discourage new programmers, precisely because they almost always end up in situations like yours. > By the way, Janek stated in the mail regarding GSoC in February: > > Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of > Code 2012? What do you hope to gain by participating? >   Most importantly: more contributors That's because Janek is wrong. Last January, I warned him that he should not try to recruit any new programmers unless he was willing to mentor them because it is very difficult for new programmers to get started. I think you have seen that my prediction was correct. > I don't understand what's not working smoothly between senior > developers. Could you describe in a pair of sentences? Is it a > situation without a solution? Well, right now we have nobody running the automated tests to check that new patches are ok. So there will be no patches accepted to lilypond. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel