There’ve been many discussions about how to manage funding and contributing especially for those of us who cannot contribute to the coding. The Lilypond project doesn’t have any administration or central organization to be responsible for soliciting, collecting, accounting for and distributing money to developers. Some people have put up bounties to get “feature X" developed. The most efficient- indeed the only- way to fund development of Lilypond is to send money directly to the specific developer.
A number of years back David Kastrup basically devoted himself to working on Lilypond full time and to correct many of the internal difficulties created by having a patchwork of developers writing things (sometimes in different development languages as well as different human languages) over a very long period of time. He was able to afford to do this due to direct contributions from users to him. He has done an amazing amount of heavy lifting in revamping the code base without which the current versions of the application would not exist with the functionality and stability they have. Not that he is the only developer working on it, by far, but he has done such a lot for the community especially in the unglamorous hidden corners of the code- and also being a prolific troubleshooter and adviser on the lilypond-user list. I am very sorry to hear he has fallen on such difficult times and hope things get better! _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user