Re: GSoC projects list

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Hi Urs,


Am 06.02.2017 um 00:24 schrieb Urs Liska:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm somewhat worried about LilyPond's GSoC project proposals list. Right
> now I'm purging the web page
> (http://lilypond.org/google-summer-of-code.html) from projects without
> mentors, and I have the feeling when this process is completed we're
> left with an unsatisfactory state.
>
> From the 9 projects that are listed at the time of writing this post
> four are right now scheduled for removal:
>
>   * Grace notes
>   * Improving default beam positioning
>   * Improving compilation behaviour
>   * Improve Slurs and Ties
>
> A fifth project, MusicXML export, is still unclear.
You asked me about this one several days ago and I didn't answer (yet). 
So let me do it now: I am willing to mentor the musicXML project.

Best
Jan-Peter

> So essentially per now we will have only 4/5 projects left:
>
>   * Improving internal chord structure
>   * Adopting SMuFL
>   * Adding glyph variants
>   * openLilyLib testing and documentation
>
> I find this list quite disappointing, and I'm afraid it won't be
> terribly attractive to potential students. So I strongly encourage
> anybody to suggest further projects, preferably together with a pledge
> to mentor them.
>
> Best
> Urs