[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Should the LilyPond website mention financial support for contributo
From: |
Tim McNamara |
Subject: |
Re: Should the LilyPond website mention financial support for contributors? |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Nov 2018 23:42:16 -0600 |
There’ve been many discussions about how to manage funding and contributing
especially for those of us who cannot contribute to the coding. The Lilypond
project doesn’t have any administration or central organization to be
responsible for soliciting, collecting, accounting for and distributing money
to developers. Some people have put up bounties to get “feature X" developed.
The most efficient- indeed the only- way to fund development of Lilypond is to
send money directly to the specific developer.
A number of years back David Kastrup basically devoted himself to working on
Lilypond full time and to correct many of the internal difficulties created by
having a patchwork of developers writing things (sometimes in different
development languages as well as different human languages) over a very long
period of time. He was able to afford to do this due to direct contributions
from users to him. He has done an amazing amount of heavy lifting in revamping
the code base without which the current versions of the application would not
exist with the functionality and stability they have. Not that he is the only
developer working on it, by far, but he has done such a lot for the community
especially in the unglamorous hidden corners of the code- and also being a
prolific troubleshooter and adviser on the lilypond-user list.
I am very sorry to hear he has fallen on such difficult times and hope things
get better!