Re: Do we really offer the future?

[David Nalesnik]

Hi Kevin,

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Kevin Tough <address@hidden> wrote:

On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 13:06 -0500, David Nalesnik wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Thomas Morley
> <address@hidden> wrote:

>
>         Hi all,
>
>         in this long thread (and some others) people posted their
>         wishlist for
>         LilyPond-features.
>         Currently not a single line of code was added to our code
>         base, though.
>
>         To start the first step may I suggest:
>
>         If you wish a lily-feature not yet available.
>         1. Look into our bug-tracker. Maybe there is an issue for it
>         already.
>         You may want to comment there.
>         2. If not, mail to our bug-list requesting this feature. This
>         way it
>         does not get lost.
>
>         No guarantee that anyone will work on it, though. Our amount
>         of
>         developers is very limited.
>         Also, very often other problems are more pressing. Right now:
>         our
>         bug-tracker will shut down and we need to move to guilev2 (no
>         warrant
>         for completeness...)
>
>         If you are a programmer, have coding-experience or even only a
>         good
>         knowledge of standard-LilyPond.
>         Please consider what you may be able to contribute.
>         A patch?
>         Answering user-request?
>         ...
>
>         All that would help.
>
>
> Please, please, pretty please.  The activity on the lists is
> excellent--what a great community to be part of!  However, the number
> of people who contribute to the codebase is incredibly
> small--frighteningly small for anyone who loves this program and wants
> to see it survive and prosper, as we all do!
>
>
> Take a look here to see development activities, how few people are
> actively involved:
>  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=summary
>
>
> If you have a great idea, please consider working on it yourself.
> Especially if you self-identify as a programmer--and I suspect there
> are plenty who frequent the lists.  I say this because there's a good
> chance your good idea will go absolutely nowhere otherwise.
>
>
>
> (Please take this as a plea for more help with the project!  It is not
> intended to downplay the efforts by the contributors to this thread.)
>
>
> Best,
> David
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Hi David and others,

as a old hobby I programmed with VS. I use Linux and through Fedora I
found Lilypond. Although at the moment I have no time for programming I
will hope to change things in the future. As a prospective future
contributor to code for Lilypond is it easy enough to start with QT4
using their free open source licensing model or what direction would you
suggest. I really like Vim but am not anywhere near a power user yet.

Namaste,
Kevin Tough

I can't recommend a good IDE to use, because I don't use one with LilyPond: a basic text editor and git grep is sufficient for me.  QtCreator has been recommended to me, though, and maybe others could chime in with their preferences.

Development is made *considerably* easier by LilyDev: see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/lilydev 

Whenever you're able to help, whatever you can do will be appreciated!

Best,

David