Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

[Bernardo Barros]

http://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/1741/

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Bernardo Barros <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I contributed before, maybe I will join it again, didn't know the
> situation was so bad.
>
> Something I requested many years ago was the support for quarter-tone
> tablatures notation, which seems to work but is actually buggy at the
> moment, it generates wrong tablatures in strings with quarter-tones
> alterations etc. Did it receive some attention recently?
>
> Best wishes,
> Bernardo
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Federico Bruni <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> Il giorno gio 22 ott 2015 alle 23:09, Urs Liska <address@hidden> ha
>> scritto:
>>
>>> As to sponsoring individual features there is a tradition (?) of
>>> bounties. You can ask for a feature or report a bug that annoys you
>>> personally on the bug-lilypond mailing list and say that you are willing
>>> to spend X Dollars or Euro or whatever. You may find someone who chimes
>>> in, sometimes other users chime in to increase the bounty. But I can't
>>> say how successful these things have been in the past and what the
>>> chances are to get "the" specific thing done one has in mind.
>>>
>>
>> In 6 years I've been following LilyPond I've never seen a bounty having
>> success. None of the issues marked with Bounty label is closed, which seems
>> to confirm my feeling.
>>
>> We have currently 19 open issues marked as Bounty:
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/search?q=labels%3A%22Bounty%22+AND+!status%3Aclosed+AND+!status%3AVerified+AND+!status%3ADuplicate
>>
>> Obviously, bounties are more likely to attract interested donators, who
>> know what they are paying for and that it will be useful for them. I know
>> that it is more complicated for a number of reasons.. but why not even 1
>> bounty in 6 years (unless I missed something) worked out?
>>
>>
>>> Now to David: I don't think your report should be interpreted like users
>>> "have stopped being happy with" your work. I think it should be
>>> interpreted as "a significant number of people who did pay something in
>>> the past don't do that anymore. And others didn't fill the gap."
>>>
>>> People may stop donating money for any number of reasons. OK, not being
>>> happy with your work is one possible reason but I'm sure it's not the
>>> reason of a majority of these people. The issue is: the type of income
>>> stream that you are after doesn't keep its level on its own. If you want
>>> to keep (or even increase) it you *have* to do constant advertising. And
>>> I think the last time we heard about the fact that you even *have* this
>>> sponsoring scheme was in 2013. I know it's hard to ask for money, even
>>> when you do that in exchange for an actual value. But without it won't
>>> just work out on itself.
>>>
>>
>> I agree, but I think that we can easily improve the situation. A few
>> simple ideas:
>>
>> 1) DOWNLOAD PAGE
>> What's the most viewed page in the website (excluding the home)? Probably
>> the download page:
>> http://lilypond.org/website/download.html
>>
>> Let's add there a big Note saying something like: "Our most active main
>> developer David Kastrup is working full-time on LilyPond development and
>> need your support to make a living. If you use and love LilyPond, please
>> allow David to continue his precious work by contributing whatever amount
>> of money you can afford. [link to Community>Sponsoring page]"
>>
>> 2) SPONSORING PAGE
>> I can guess without looking at 'git log' that the sponsoring page was
>> written by Graham :-)
>> It does not encourage any donation, right? The feeling is very different
>> from what we are reading in many replies in this thread. Maybe it's time to
>> change it a little bit?
>>
>> 3) GITSTATS
>> The gitstats linked in the sponsoring pages are a great idea but they are
>> out-of-date (november 2012). Any chance to keep them up-to-date
>> automatically?
>> Also, I'd rather link to the Authors tab:
>> http://lilypond.org/~graham/gitstats-3months/AUTHORS.html
>>
>> gitstats is just a python script. Who has access to the server may just
>> set up a cron job to create the stats every X days:
>> https://github.com/hoxu/gitstats/blob/master/doc/INSTALL
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Bernardo Barros
>
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>
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Bernardo Barros

NYU, GSAS
PhD cand Music Composition
24 Waverly Place, Room 268
New York, NY 10003

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