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new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it
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Graham Percival |
Subject: |
new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:55:11 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html
There's now an Examples section, thanks to Jonathan Kulp.
- currently, most examples have a "click-to-expand" thing. Some
of them don't work expanded, others don't work non-expanded.
But there's enough working stuff for you to get the idea.
IS THIS WORTH IT? Making it work nicely in small+expanded
versions is turning out to be a pain. I'm wondering if we
should just stick to small examples, which are approximately
infinitely times easier to create/modify/regenerate.
More importantly, we need help. I recently re-iterated my claim
that the lilypond community should have the
program/bugs/documentation/website they deserve, but currently
this isn't happening -- Patrick and I have spent a ton of time and
effort on this website.
- Patrick wants to spend time programming lilypond. I also want
him to spend time programming. He's doing nifty stuff like
fixing the SVG output, fixing misc bugs, and cleaning up a ton
of advanced documentation.
WE NEED A NEW CSS PERSON.
- I'm wasting a lot of time on mundane jobs. For example, the old
news page needs to be put into the new website source. This
means going through a bunch of things like
<h2>New German translaton! Aug 07, 2006</h2>
<p>Ich nein katza, <a href="http://blah">auf blitzen</a> drie.</p>
and turning it into
@subheading New German Translation! 2006 Aug 07
Ich nein katza, @uref{http://blah, auf blitzen} drie.
Not hard. I could even train an undergraduate to do this job!
WE NEED SOMEBODY TO WRITE TEXT.
- I tend to rewrite / reword sentences as I work on them, but I
have a nasty habit of not reading the once I erase stuff and
write new material. The result is by native English speakers,
although it may slightly confusing. Not what we in a shiny
new website, that's for certain!
(also, many sentences on the website could be rewritten to
reduce the words, reduce the complexity -- remember, we have
a fair chunk of non-native English readers, so let's not
elaborate our missives with loquatious (sp) verbitage)
WE NEED SOMEBODY TO PROOFREAD TEXT.
- Some of the examples could be improved... fancier formatting,
adding more text to the theory example, etc.
WE NEED SOMEBODY TO WORK ON .LY FILES.
Now, I'm *completely* capable of doing any of those tasks (even
self-proofreading, once I get into the mood)... but
a) I don't think I should be doing so much work on this, and
b) if somebody does those jobs, I can tackle harder stuff.
I'm *really* not doing much this summer other than lilypond -- I
have no job, no studies, no girlfriend -- so it's mainly a
question of "what parts of lilypond do I work on", not "will I
work on something". So, just like we all benefit from having
Patrick *not* working on CSS stuff, I think we would all benefit
from me *not* working on the website so much.
Cheers,
-Graham
- new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it,
Graham Percival <=
- Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it, Valentin Villenave, 2009/07/10
- Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it, Graham Percival, 2009/07/10
- Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it, Patrick McCarty, 2009/07/10
- Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it, Graham Percival, 2009/07/10
- Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it, Jonathan Kulp, 2009/07/10
Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it, Patrick McCarty, 2009/07/10