Re: documentation suggestion [Was: Using the "articulate.ly" script AND getting nice-looking engraved output - how to]

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno ven, 15/04/2011 alle 10.25 -0600, Tom Cloyd ha scritto:
> 
> 
> On 04/15/2011 03:29 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: 
> > 2011/4/15 Tom Cloyd <address@hidden>
> >         OK - I visited the Lilypond website and tried to figure out
> >         how to post to some documentation discussion list I thought
> >         existed. That left me confused and without options, so I'm
> >         back here.
> >         
> >         
> > Community > Help us > Documentation suggestions
> > 
> > if you follow the link you can see that lilypond-dev is the mailing
> > list where Doc issues are usually discussed.
> > 
> > I thought it was lilypond-bug...
> > Both are ok maybe?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Federico
> Yes, I agree that that is a reasonable path to what appears to be an
> answer to my initial question about where I send my documentation
> proposal. But, as I wrote to someone else last night...
> 

you wrote it privately as this email maybe?
you should keep the discussion on the list so your ideas may be useful
for documentation editors

> I didn't act as suggested on the page (by sending a post to
> address@hidden because [a] that appears to be the address of a
> list of which I'm not a member, and [b] I simply don't have time to
> search for HOW to join and go through usual "are you really a person,
> or are you an alien from outer space who wants to spam us to death"
> rituals, and [c] I cannot be a regular documentation contributor and
> thus don't  need to have MORE irrelevant email coming to my address
> than I already get. 
> 

I agree with you.
I think that we may add a 4th point in the list in CG 5.2 saying
something like:

5. You must be subscribed in order to post via email to the
`lilypond-dev mailing list
<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel>`. Otherwise you
can post a message without subscribing by using the Gmane interface at
http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel 

Please rephrase it in a better english (even though I mostly copied and
pasted from the link above).


> I think a better idea would be simply to have a single person or email
> address (which could be checked periodically by any number of people)
> to which documentation suggestions could be sent. The problem with
> THIS idea, of course, is that documentation suggests will often
> require discussion before reaching a final form.

I don't think we need one more mailing list for doc proposals. It would
be a waste of resources.
The contributor who is not subscribed to lilypond-dev can follow the
discussion on gmane.org.

I hope this solution satisfies you ;-)

>  
> I'm not really sure what the best idea is. One surely doesn't want to
> have barriers which make documentation proposals too daunting.

Thanks for the feedback.
Cheers,
Federico