Busy Developer's Summary 1: what happened this week

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi,

here's the first issue of LilyPond's weekly "Busy Developer's
Summary".  Its aim is to help people that are too busy to read all
LilyPond emails to keep up with the most important stuff; this week
seems to be particularly dense in this regard.  Enjoy!

WHAT IMPORTANT HAPPENED

Graham Percival announced that he resigns the position of Project
Manager.  He doesn't quit entirely, but his activity will be reduced
to 1-2 hrs a week.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-10/msg00398.html

Mike Solomon got engaged and is planning a wedding (congratulations!).
 As a result he's not active for some time.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-10/msg00287.html

Janek Warchoł announced that he'll be less active for several weeks
due to University work and other stuff.  As you can see, he's not very
sucessful at being less active, but he keeps trying.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-10/msg00225.html

28th issue of the LilyPond Report was released.  It focuses on
LilyPond User&Developer meeting that took place in Waltrop this
August.
http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28&lang=en

Weekly Summaries For Busy Developers are introduced by Janek Warchoł.
Everyone is encouraged to participate; there are some very simple
guidelines here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-10/msg00424.html

WHAT NEEDS YOUR FEEDBACK

David Kastrup announced a patch set that, among other changes, allows
to specify grob properties without #' (for example \tweak length #4
instead of current \tweak #'length #4 ).  Some people think this is a
big readability improvement.  Incorporating this in the docs would
mean a huge 7000-line patch, so David asks for as much feedback as
possible.
"[GLISS] turning strings to symbols"
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-10/msg00383.html
"Context.Grob considered as symbol list"
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-10/msg00362.html
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2883

After many months of development, Marc Hohl's patch introducing new,
very powerful barline interface seems to be finished and has been put
on countdown.  Reviews encouraged.
http://codereview.appspot.com/6498052/

Ian Hulin wrote an official syntax proposal: introduce new syntax for
tuplets.  Instead of writing \times 2/3 { } to get some triplets, you
would write \tuplet 3/2 { } (note the reversed order in the ratio).
Ian's proposal seems to be supported by those who participated in the
discussion.  Developers are also wondering how Lily should be informed
about details of the ratio (for example noteheads displayed over the
tuplet) - it was suggested either to extend \tuplet syntax or have
another command; no consensus here.
A related idea - supporting arbitraty integer durations (i.e. { a3 b3
a3 } meaning \tuplet 3/2 { a2 b2 a2 } ) - was mentioned, but it will
be discussed separately if at all.
"[proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3"
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-10/msg00203.html

cheers,
Janek