Re: Proposing commit access for Lukas-Fabian Moser

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Am 06.10.21 um 21:21 schrieb Jean Abou Samra:
> Hi all,
>
> Rebasing and merging Lukas' \after patch this
> morning, I had a wonder moment — wait, he still
> doesn't have commit access? Seeing his recent patches,
> which all required substantial discussion and
> refinement as well as documentation and regression
> tests (bracketed bass figure alterations, \after,
> \numericTimeSignature, the closed \lyricSkip), as
> well as his participation on lilypond-devel, and
> of course on lilypond-user for quite some time, I
> believe Developer role on GitLab is long overdue.
> As a reminder, this means the ability to merge
> one's patches as well as change merge request
> labels (which is useful often). Thoughts?

Of course that's very flattering, thanks.

Not really having any serious software development experience, I'm 
really impressed by the way LilyPond development is structured nowadays: 
You manage to, at the same time, keep the threshold for new contributors 
very low (a Gitlab account is enough), make sure that a rookie 
contributor can't break anything, and, by a huge amount of generosity 
and helpfulness of you guys, help polish and improve amateur 
contributions enough that they can actually be merged eventually.

Thanks much, and maybe that's a good opportunity to reiterate that my 
everyday work (as a theory teacher at a music university) wouldn't be 
possible the way it is without LilyPond. It's an incredible piece of 
software, and I would have to think very hard to find even a day over 
last few years that I didn't use it.

As for the question of commit access, for me it's a trade-off between my 
fear of accidentally breaking something and my wish not to burden others 
too often with eventual rebasing/merging chores the way Jean generously 
did for me a couple of times.

Lukas