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Re: centralization of lilypond development and forking (was: branching)
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Mike Solomon |
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Re: centralization of lilypond development and forking (was: branching) |
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Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:24:10 +0200 |
On Dec 11, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 08:39:58AM +0200, Mike Solomon wrote:
>> See:
>>
>> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Allows-minimum-length-to-work-for-end-of-line-spanners-issue-7453046-td141952.html#a142870
>> as one of several examples. There is truth in anything David says,
>> meaning that I (like him (and most of us on this list)) have caused bugs
>> that I did not find or fix before someone else. How, does this warrant
>> this communication style?
>
> Interesting. I totally agree that lilypond has a problem (see
> below), but in that email chain I find myself nodding along with
> David. I mean, he makes empirical claims (such as documentation
> about partial elliptic stencils) that I assume are accurate (since
> I doubt he would make empirical claims without checking that they
> are true).
>
Anything empirical in there is accurate.
>
> However, I am not blind to the end result of the communications.
> I mean, at the beginning of September 2012 (after the meeting at
> the ranch) I was more enthusiastic about LilyPond than I had been
> for the previous 5 years, but one month later I decided to pretty
> much quit the project.
This is bad. If this were some ultimate, fatalistic consequence of
participation in any open-source project, I’d shrug and move onto the next, but
it is precisely because in every other project I participate in this _doesn’t_
exist that I’m going through pains to try to solve this here.
Cheers,
MS
- Re: branching, (continued)
- Re: branching, Carl Sorensen, 2013/12/10
- Re: branching, Mike Solomon, 2013/12/10
- Re: branching, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/12/11
- Re: branching, David Kastrup, 2013/12/11
- Re: branching, Mike Solomon, 2013/12/11
- Re: branching, Mike Solomon, 2013/12/11
- Re: branching, Trevor Daniels, 2013/12/11
- Re: branching, Mike Solomon, 2013/12/11
- Re: branching, David Kastrup, 2013/12/11
- Re: branching, Mike Solomon, 2013/12/11