With the end of 2007, I am announcing my intention to leave LilyPond. I began using LilyPond in the summer of 2001. For the next three years, I wrote a lot of music, and gave a tiny amount of help for the project. Then I finished my first degree and moved to a different university. I also became the Documentation Editor, since nobody else was willing to do it.
For the next three and a half years and almost three thousand hours, I gave a huge amount of help to the project, but only wrote a tiny amount of music. Two pieces, to be exact: both chamber music, and both under five pages in full score. Music composition is no longer a part of my life; I'm now a grad student in computers science. I'm still connected to music: I'm working on Computer-Assisted Musical Instrument Tutoring programs, particularly focusing on violin. (if anybody's curious about this area, I could send them some of my conference publications.) I remain committed to open-source projects -- more than ever, since I am now a capable programmer. But I think I've done enough for LilyPond: as some users have noted, we have one of the best-organized docs of any project. Now I would like to contribute to other projects, and begin sharing my *own* open-source projects. I am not abruptly leaving, though. That would be unfair to whoever replaced me: I have a lot of experience with the lilypond docs and project management. I will therefore remain in the project for the next few months. This is _solely_ so that I can mentor my replacement(s), please see the email "Leaving: replacements". Don't treat my staying for another X months an excuse to remain inactive until then; please begin helping *now*, so that I can teach you how to do these tasks efficiently. Cheers, - Graham Percival, LilyPond Documentation Editor and Bug Meister. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
