Re: improving our workflow with better tools - let's test things.

[David Kastrup]

James <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, although I don't want to be considered arrogant that it should
> only be 'acceptable to me'; but when the last Patch-nanny decided he
> was going 'spend more time with his family' (so to speak speaking) and
> wanted to pass on the role to someone else, the silence from the
> LilyPond community was deafening.

Well, there is a lot of deafening silence for a lot of issues from the
LilyPond community.  Part of the reason is that there is a limited
number of members, and very distributed field of interests, LilyPond
covering a large area.

> I know that real developers would pitch in if need be, but it has
> taken me away from doing documentation patches - my original role - as
> I simply do not have time to do this and any documentation that is of
> any significant size or that may require a lot of back-and-forth as we
> polish and refine some explanatory section that needs an overhaul.

A decade ago, I was on a choir trip in Estonia and Latvia.  We played
one concert in an old large church in some small town.  The organ player
worked half a day on the instrument with his assistant, figuring out
what registers were still useful, which notes stuck, which registers had
drone tones at which volume and so on (at some point during the Duruflé
requiem he pulled stops in a panic until finally something gave off a
tone).  It looked like several organ pipes had gunshots through them.

In contrast to our usual concert garb, the conductor decided we should
not take off coats/overcoats whatever.  The church was large, could
probably seat 800 easily.  There were maybe about 15 people hearing the
concert.  Afterwards, we moved into a side room that apparently was
small enough that the community was able to afford heating it.

I bet that church gets to see a lot of silence.  But it's not because of
the community not caring enough, but rather because of the community
being small compared to the church.

Is that silence deafening or ear-opening?

-- 
David Kastrup