Re: Bravura in LilyPond

[Janek Warchoł]

Ok, probably my last lily email for a few days...

2013/12/22 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Well, if you take a look at things like
> <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3723>, the
> amount of feedback is, uh, underwhelming.  It focuses on indentation
> (I have to admit, though, that I had forgotten about Werner expressing
> his opinion that this is a move in the right direction).
>
> Since the patch series _vastly_ simplifies the grammar while extending
> and regularizing its functionality, this is somewhat amusing.  But then
> it is not entirely unexpected.

I've looked at it now, but i wasn't able to see how it makes life
easier for me, so i cannot give any feedback, sorry :(  But i'm sure
that it makes things better - thanks!

> What this boils down to is that most contributors creating particular
> functionality first do so because it is most important to _them_.
> Particularly when we are talking about first-time contributors, it is
> likely that the importance of some feature is strongest felt by
> themselves since it even made them cross the threshold from user to
> developer.

Indeed.

JAnek