Re: ’Pond Jobs & Their Descriptions

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Jonas,

> certainly not a "Patch Formatter", that's part of the review process
> which is no job, every developer should participate.

The largest [commercial] programming project I was ever on had about 40 
developers working on it. When I first joined, they put me on code formatting 
[only] for two days, so I could get used to their workflow and toolchain (CVS, 
etc.). Once I was comfortable with that, and them with me, they moved me to 
error throw/catch work for a week. Only after that period of time did we both 
feel like I could move on to full contribution to the codebase.

Obviously there are [big] differences between open-source projects and 
commercial projects/jobs… but I personally think that my own way past the 
significant "wall" of beginning Lilypond development is to start with something 
as small as possible, and I’m betting there are others out there that feel the 
same.

Best regards,
Kieren.
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