Re: LilyPond blog

[Urs Liska]

Am 17.10.2017 um 04:15 schrieb Karlin High:
> How about a regular feature like "Last Month in LilyPond?" Sometimes I
> lose track of what's all happened in the development version, and why
> it matters.
Am 17.10.2017 um 07:49 schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt:
> Hi Karlin,
>
> yes, such a periodic series of posts would be nice! 

Indeed. Other than doing it on a monthly basis we could also have a 
series of posts for each  new release.
I think this could either be written by a developer who is actually 
involved in following how the repository emerges - or maybe even better 
by an interested user. It shouldn't be that hard to learn making sense 
of logs like this: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lilypond.git/log/ 
toghether with some handholding from the developers.

> Would you like to write such posts? Anyone else?
> If there is activity on the blog we will find someone to maintain it.

That's only partially true, unfortunately. The main task of a 
"maintainer" is to actually recruit such activity. One option is to 
continually write posts, which I had done for quite some time. (Maybe 
that even kept some potential contributors away, I don't know.) But for 
the nature of this blog (and probably also for the community itself) it 
would be much better to have a number of regular plus numerous 
occasional (and even one-time) contributors. But to get people to 
contribute requires more or less permanent attention, and without at 
least one person taking over some responsibility (better two or three 
but rather not more) it will probably just not work.

Best
Urs

> Jan-Peter
>
> Am 17.10.2017 um 04:15 schrieb Karlin High:
> > How about a regular feature like "Last Month in LilyPond?" Sometimes I
> > lose track of what's all happened in the development version, and why
> > it matters.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> 
> > wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > "Scores of Beauty" (http://lilypondblog.org) is LIlypond's 
> > > semi-official
> > > community blog, not my personal publicity platform. Therefore I'm 
> > > not happy
> > > to see that withdrawing from actual activity on my side seems to 
> > > result in
> > > basically a total mute of the blog.
> > >
> > > I don't see how I will get back to keeping the blog alive in the near
> > > future, so I'd like to raise everyone's attention to the value of 
> > > having
> > > such a blog. I urgently suggest that people decide to contribute to 
> > > it, and
> > > in particular I would be happy if someone could step up and take 
> > > over some
> > > editorial responsibility. It's not *that* much actual investment of 
> > > time but
> > > rather a spirit of commitment that is necessary.
> > >
> > > I'd be happy about anyone getting in touch with me and Paul Morris 
> > > about
> > > maintaining the blog.
> > >
> > > Best
> > > Urs
> > >
> > >
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