Re: state of the ’Pond for earnest tadpoles

[Michael Käppler]

Hi Kieren,
> Hi Jonas (et al.),
>
> > I would claim that the contributor experience has been pretty stable
> > since the initial switch to GitLab. Enabling CI and the recent work to
> > also run 'make check' automatically shouldn't change much from a
> > contributor's point of view, I hope.
> > I can't promise to give detailed guidance, the procedures should be
> > described in unstable's CG, but if there's anything unclear or even
> > wrong I'm more than happy to help you and of course fix the docs.
> So here’s what I’ve done, as per 
> <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/lilydev>:
please use http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/contributor/lilydev
instead. I adjusted some parts of this section last year. However, I
would be happy to hear
if something remains still unclear.

Cheers,
Michael

> 1. Download & install VirtualBox. No problem!
>
> 2. Download LilyDev 2 from <https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/releases/tag/v2>. Um… 
> There’s only one file that seems like it’s the downloadable one (LilyDev-2-debian-vm.zip), and 
> it’s not named as per the docs ("lilydev-vm-fedora-VERSION"). Is that a doc problem, 
> or am I being daft?
>
> 3. Unzip the downloaded file. It becomes a folder containing an .img file. Okay… except 
> the docs claim it should be a "raw" file. So do I try to convert that to VDI?
>
> Note: I’m on Mac OS High Sierra (10.13.6).
>
> Thanks,
> Kieren.
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>
> Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his)
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