Re: openlilylib pull request

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 08/05/2022 à 20:37, Jean Abou Samra a écrit :
> Le 08/05/2022 à 20:08, Simon Albrecht a écrit :
> > Dear community,
> >
> > I have made some small updates to keep the openlilylib/bezier module 
> > working with current versions of LilyPond and created a pull request 
> > on GitHub. Is anyone currently able to notice and approve the request?
>
>
>
> I don't think so. Urs left the community, as you know (and for reasons
> unknown to me). I haven't seen anyone really maintaining OLL recently.
> Andrew (in CC) had set up http://openlilylib.space/ and a migration to
> GitLab at some point, but the website has been down for a while, and
> I can't find the repo on GitLab. If I recall correctly, the main people
> involved in coding OLL apart from Urs and Andrew were Janek and 
> Jan-Peter.
> Both of them are inactive at the moment. Did I miss anyone? (The activity
> period of OLL was before I started getting involved.)
>
> I may be wrong, but I guess the most straightforward path for you
> right now is to fork this repository and advertise the fork.
>
> The case study of how OLL fell out of maintenance is one of the
> things leading me to think that a model where snippets providing
> significant functionality and becoming somewhat popular get
> upstreamed into the LilyPond core is a better fit for LilyPond
> than them letting them be provided through external packages.




PS: I wrote this before actually looking at the PR, and
coincidentally it turns out that it removes code for a
functionality that I integrated into the core :-)
(Although I wasn't even aware that it existed in OLL at
the time, and just implemented it following a 10-year-old
issue in the tracker, opened by Urs.)

Best,
Jean