I have to admit I'm pretty disappointed with the user community. For the past month, I've spent approximately 2 hours a day (not counting Sunday) working on the Grand Unified Builder. As you might expect from anything that cross-compiles a project like lilypond on 8 platforms, GUB is large and complicated. It has 613 lines of makefiles, 18,785 lines of python spread over 298 files, 37,420 lines of patch files, and 1,807 lines of nsis configuration stuff for the windows build. Figuring out how to fix/change anything is hard.
To be honest, my PhD studies have suffered due to my work on it. I'm already a month behind schedule, which is pretty impressive since I'm only two months into the degree! So I've been more-or-less ignoring the new website. A few times I've asked for help on it. We now have an orchestra example. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/index But what else do I see? - Introduction->Alternative input Apparently, nobody knows what Denemo is. (or else nobody can be arsed to send me a bloody two-sentence description) - Introduction->Alternative input Apparently, nobody knows what emacs or vim are. (or else nobody can be arsed to send me a bloody two-sentence description) - Introduction->Features Apparently, nobody is capable of reading three webpages, comparing them to a third webpage, and giving an opinion that "yes, the new website looks good" or "the new webpage should also mention XYZ". (or else nobody can be arsed...) - Community->Authors Apparently, nobody is capable of cutting and pasting together some text. (or else...) Come on, guys. I'm giving up asking for screenshots or pictures. I've never cared about CSS or presentation stuff. But can we get the bloody TEXT finished?! At least at a "first draft" level?!?! I admit that I drastically over-estimated the amount of interest and help the website would generate. I've scaled back the plans as much as possible, in response to that minimal interest. But there's still about 5 hours of work to be done. The files are in Documentation/general/ , so it should be easy to generate a patch to fix any of those issues. - Graham PS please don't respond to this email with "oh, and by the way, the search box is broken" or "the icons on the download page should be vertically centered" or anything like that. I want the MINIMAL amount to be finished. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
