Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-11 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: > Hello John! > > >> I’m a recently retired software engineer highly experienced with >> C++, less with Unix and open-source development, and not at all with >> Scheme. > > Assuming that you are a Windows guy: It would be great if you could > make lilypond compile on that p

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-11 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Albrecht writes: > On 10.11.2015 16:36, John Gourlay wrote: >> I’m a recently retired software engineer highly experienced with >> C++, less with Unix and open-source development, and not at all with >> Scheme. > > I fear that you may not get around learning some scheme, since our C++ > sou

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-11 Thread David Kastrup
John Gourlay writes: > Only now that I’ve retired from that job do I feel like I have time to > give back to the open-source community. I only learned about LilyPond > about two years ago from Daniel Spreadbury who tracked me down hoping > to get some of the unpublished MusiCopy reports. (Of cour

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread Mike Solomon
John Gourlay Date: 10/11/2015 10:47 PM (GMT+02:00) To: Mike Solomon Cc: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor Mike, Yes, I am the spacing-a-line-of-music John Gourlay, pleased that my early contributions have turned out to be useful. I’ve been out of the loo

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.11.2015 um 21:47 schrieb John Gourlay: > Mike, > > Yes, I am the spacing-a-line-of-music John Gourlay, pleased that my early > contributions have turned out to be useful. I’ve been out of the loop for > about 30 years, however, so it won’t happen that I’ll be doing any mentoring > myself

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread John Gourlay
Mike, Yes, I am the spacing-a-line-of-music John Gourlay, pleased that my early contributions have turned out to be useful. I’ve been out of the loop for about 30 years, however, so it won’t happen that I’ll be doing any mentoring myself for some time. Indeed I’ve been working in Windows for th

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 10.11.2015 16:36, John Gourlay wrote: I’m a recently retired software engineer highly experienced with C++, less with Unix and open-source development, and not at all with Scheme. I fear that you may not get around learning some scheme, since our C++ source is quite interlinked with scheme

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread James
Hello Werner, On 10/11/15 16:10, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Hello John! > > >> I’m a recently retired software engineer highly experienced with >> C++, less with Unix and open-source development, and not at all with >> Scheme. > Assuming that you are a Windows guy: It would be great if you could > ma

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread James
:) On 10/11/15 15:53, Mike Solomon wrote: > > Wait wait wait, are you THE John Gourlay?As in "Spacing a Line of Music" 1987 > John Gourlay? If so, you should be mentoring us, not the other way around! I > think I've cited you in every paper I've ever written about notation. We also cite Mr

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Hello John! > I’m a recently retired software engineer highly experienced with > C++, less with Unix and open-source development, and not at all with > Scheme. Assuming that you are a Windows guy: It would be great if you could make lilypond compile on that platform! There are also some rough

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread Urs Liska
Welcome to LilyPond and this list, John, Am 10.11.2015 um 16:36 schrieb John Gourlay: > I’m an aspiring LilyPond contributor who needs a mentor. How can I get one? I'm not sure you can "get one" here because there are simply too few developers around. But if you continue asking questions on this

RE: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread Mike Solomon
Wait wait wait, are you THE John Gourlay?As in "Spacing a Line of Music" 1987 John Gourlay? If so, you should be mentoring us, not the other way around! I think I've cited you in every paper I've ever written about notation. I'd love to help you get started. It is your algorithm at the hear