Hello All,
I've been absent from the list for a long time, but recently got CC'd
about an Openlilylib pull request.
I must apologise for never getting around to updating the list on the
Openlilylib project status. Some time ago I took over from Urs who is
no longer able to do the work for private reasons I am not at liberty
to share. All started well and I setup a Linux server and a Wordpress
site and forum for the project. Taking over the code repository it had
long needed a large amount of refactoring, which I started but this
proved to be a complicated project for reasons I need not detain
people with here.
Then due to what can only be described as sheer stupidity I managed to
irrecoverably destroy my Linux server (it's a long story). What
happened after that is twofold. First, I am sorry to say that I was
diagnosed with the quite rare blood cancer Multiple Myeloma some ten
years ago now. It's fatal and incurable, though it can be managed
well, especially by the hospital here in Melbourne, Australia which
has a world leading research department specializing, amazingly, in
the particular cancer. So although I am doing well sometimes large
software tasks become very onerous and difficult, compared to before I
became ill. Second, with the difficulties mentioned, it seemed to me
that I only ever got less than half a dozen people signed up on the
Discourse forum, and the project seemed hardly worth the effort to
continue, even though I do know there are quite a few OLL end users.
The sum of all this is that I have left it dormant for such a long time.
So at present there is no repository owner to accept pull requests,
I am not really able to restart this project, and very happy for
others to pick up the ball. People are welcome to contact me for any
advice.
Once again, apologies for being incommunicado, and all the best to
everyone.
Andrew Bernard