Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/18 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That seems trivial -- surely everybody knows this already -- so let's discuss a specific example. I'll pick on Valentin since he won't mind... and also since he's almost

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/8/18 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That seems trivial -- surely everybody knows this already -- so let's discuss a specific example. I'll pick on Valentin since he won't mind... and also since he's almost a complete opposite of me. Please do not think of me as a yes-man :-) (If

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-18 Thread Ralph Palmer
Greetings, all - I'm getting confused and slightly distressed. I'm now spending close to an hour a day just reading the discussion list! I'm signed up to do the indexing, but as far as I know there's nothing ready to be indexed. I'd be willing to try to write some snippets, but I don't know

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, I'm not saying that doing a 2-hour feature is bad, but I *definitely* disagree that losing somebody from the doc team isn't cause for serious concern. A feature-freeze and/or bug-extension is more concerning to me… But that's (another reason) why I'm not the Documentation

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Ralph Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, all - I'm getting confused and slightly distressed. I'm now spending close to an hour a day just reading the discussion list! I'm signed up to do th It seems that the documentation team is worried about

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:54:44 -0300 Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Ralph Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, all - I'm getting confused and slightly distressed. I'm now spending close to an hour a day just reading the discussion list!

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-18 Thread John Mandereau
2008/8/18 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:42:38 +0200 John Mandereau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not doing both? Because it's impossible to do both at the same time. It takes time and energy to answer emails or write docs. That seems trivial -- surely everybody

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-18 Thread Ralph Palmer
I owe you an enormous debt of gratitude for your advice, patience, and persistence in demanding a better product from me. I'll talk more with Valentin and Neil about the Snippet Repository. Break a leg tomorrow, Ralph On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:42:38 +0200 John Mandereau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/13 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's a waste because, 7 days from now, there will be precisely half a dozen people who are updating the documentation. There's at least 50 people who can answer simple

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Graham, I agree with *most* of your post here… except I honestly think that stopping the doc team from disintegrating is more important than nice new features like that. Depending on the feature, this can be *far* more important than having one person stay with the doc team. If you're

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:34:20 -0400 Kieren MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Graham, I agree with *most* of your post here___ except I honestly think that stopping the doc team from disintegrating is more important than nice new features like that. Depending on the feature, this

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-17 Thread Carl Sorensen
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmillan at sympatico.ca writes: Hi Graham, I agree with *most* of your post here… except I honestly think that stopping the doc team from disintegrating is more important than nice new features like that. Depending on the feature, this can be *far* more

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-16 Thread John Mandereau
2008/8/13 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's a waste because, 7 days from now, there will be precisely half a dozen people who are updating the documentation. There's at least 50 people who can answer simple questions here. To be efficient, those six people should spend their time

it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-13 Thread Graham Percival
My goodness, how time flies. Is it really time for our yearly we want more for nothing argument? On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:18:36 + David Bobroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicholas Wastell wrote: Don't patronise me, don't make excuses for Graham and I stand by what I wrote. I'm sure that

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-13 Thread Nicholas Wastell
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:07:14 -0700 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm busy and pissed off at the amount of time I've spent on lilypond. Approximately three thousand hours now... and I stopped composing and arranging *FOUR YEARS* ago. Did someone hold a gun to your head? If you

Re: it's all up to you users (was: Please forget LM MG NR IR SL AU)

2008-08-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm busy and pissed off at the amount of time I've spent on lilypond. Approximately three thousand hours now... and I stopped composing and arranging *FOUR YEARS* ago. What does three thousand hours mean? Well, if I