What
you can do now is
- fork this repository
- register the fork and the main Github repository as
"remotes" in your local repository (I suggest to name them
"github" and "<insert-your-github-username>" if you have
the Savannah repository as "origin")
- create a branch for your path
- commit
- push to your fork
- create a Pull Request on Github
- tell us here about it because we won't be automatically
notified about it.
That way anyone can look at your code, and you should be able
to refine the code together with others.
At some point you may then do the required registrations and
upload your patch for review (as per LilyPond's Contributrs'
Guide), or you may ask someone else to "sheperd" your patch
through the review process.
Thanks much for the step-by-step description! I think I managed to
follow it through, now. (I admit I was a bit shocked by my own
courage after reading the line "