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Re: User vs Developer: Round 2 (and half-time?) (was: Re: music font)
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Tim McNamara |
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Re: User vs Developer: Round 2 (and half-time?) (was: Re: music font) |
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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:59:36 -0600 |
Sometimes it happens that a non-programer user reports some issue or makes some
request and gets metaphorically punched by a developer. This occurs in all
open-source projects. Some developers are much tetchier than the Lilypond
developers (such as the GNU Emacs developers. Whoa. Their attitude is "if you
can't fix it yourself, you shouldn't be using the software.")!
Lilypond developers work hard, usually in their spare time and almost always
for free. The end result is that Lilypond produces the best looking scores
(IMHO) of any music engraving software package available.
Users work hard to try to figure out how to use what is still a very
challenging application with a very steep learning curve. Like me, many users
have no idea how to code anything in C, C++, Scheme, etc. In my case, as is
probably true of many others, I have a full time (plus) occupation that leaves
me no time to learn how to write Scheme, C++, etc. We can only offer feedback
on how it works (and, of course, if it works well there is probably no
feedback!).
Sometimes developers and users tread on each others' toes. The task for all of
us is to not take too much umbrage when that happens. Life goes on, Lilypond
gets better.