Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

>>> - you can pay one of the experienced developers to implement
>>> specifically this feature.  But that would probably be expensive, as
>>> programming work is expensive in general.  You'll probably need to
>>> find several other people willing to pay for this.
>>
>> I'm confused, I thought David was a developer - no?
>
> Yes, he is.  Our most active one at the moment.
>
>> You said paying him would not be a likely path to seeing
>> this boxed notation implemented further, but rather just to help LilyPond
>> in general, progress as software.
>
> It depends.  You can add $10/month to the "general David fund", just
> to enable David working on LilyPond in general (that's continouous
> financial support).  Or you can negotiate a specific contract with him
> - or someone else - where you'd give that person a significantly
> bigger amount of money once and he'd implement something specific
> (that's hiring a programmer to implement a feature).

There is also David Nalesnik who has been the one doing the previous
implementation IIRC.

The situation with me is that LilyPond users and developers are keeping
me financially afloat with the understanding that I spend my available
time on improving LilyPond according to what I consider best at the
moment.

Since I am excellent at programming and awful at self-discipline, this
arrangement tends to deliver quite better value for the money than
actually hiring me for more specific tasks.  And if I got stuck on more
specific tasks, that would be to the detriment of the people who are
already contributing to my costs of living.

So we are in the somewhat absurd situation that people tend to recommend
my services in order to improve my finances, but that I actually don't
feel like I can in good conscience offer to do non-trivial "side jobs"
that can cause me to deadlock for longer times.

-- 
David Kastrup