Re: To branch or not to branch

[Andrew Bernard]

Hello Jonas,

As the present 'owner' of OLL I never thought OLL was a critical 
dependency of Lilypond. This has never been my understanding. I believe 
there is an issue with edition engraver, but I can't see how that should 
stop a significant Lilypond release. If people depend on the edition 
engraver then they will have to remain on the Lilypond release where it 
works (I can't recall the version.) As with Lilypond, OLL is totally 
under-resourced. The number of people currently working on the codebase 
is 0-1 (the 1 being overworked Jean). I'm not likely to get to fix this 
for at least a few weeks or even months, sorry to say.

Please go ahead without depending on OLL. If it has been now been 
decided that OLL is a critical resource then I need to rewrite some 
notes about it on the website and we have to recruit people to work on it.

People are welcome to express their needs and opinon re edition engraver 
and OLL on the Discourse forum I created:

https://discourse.openlilylib.space/

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their actual name, although that would be nice.]


Andrew Bernard


On 21/09/2022 4:29 pm, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond 
development wrote:
> There is also https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6430 which
> is a problem for OLL on Windows. I can't personally comment if it's
> "critical enough" to block the branching / release.
>
> Please comment, also with other issues and thoughts. It's a bit
> frustrating if there are no clear replies and I'm left to guess...
>
> Jonas