want to help

[David Zelinsky]

Hey there developers,

I've been using LilyPond for a few years, and feel it's high time to
give something back.  As suggested on the help-us page, I am writing to
ask for guidance.

As background, though I am not a professional programmer, I do have a
lot of coding experience, mostly in conjunction with my research, mostly
in C and Python, and including some large projects.  I am conversant
with git (though I would not say expert).   I don't know much scheme,
but I am adept with Emacs Lisp.  There are some important differences of
course, but a lot of scheme code looks pretty familiar.

I like to make things look good (including code!) and take documentation
seriously.  I have cloned the git repo, and yesterday successfully
compiled everything.

I would be interested in helping in any way that might use my skills to
good effect.


I do have one thing now that I'd like to contribute.  As has been
mentioned on the other lists, the documentation for \defineBarLine is a
bit lacking in clarity and completeness.  I've re-written the first
couple of paragraphs about \defineBarLine in rhythms.itely to address
this.  Should I just submit the relevant text in lilypond-bugs?  Or try
to make a merge request?  It's 3 or 4 paragraphs (450 words replacing
150), with appropriate texinfo markup.

I look forward to your suggestions.

-David