Re: [OLL} Discourse forum

[Freeman Gilmore]

Good suggestion..

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:33 AM Gilles Sadowski <gilleseran@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> 2020-10-16 15:47 UTC+02:00, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bernard@gmail.com>:
> > To provide a focus and a sub-community for LilyPond users and those
> > interested in openLilyLib, I have established a Discourse forum here:
> >
> > https://discourse.openlilylib.space
> >
> > All are welcome to join. It's a forum and a parallel mailing list for
> > support, help, development talk, and all matters about openLilyLib.
> >
> > This runs on my personally managed Linux VPS systems, and Discourse is
> > fully open source, in accordance with my policy of using open source
> > wherever possible.
> >
> > When setting up new services such as this that utilise email for
> > functions, one inevitably hits the demons of the spam blacklisting
> > houses, which can aggressively block email. I have a lot of experience
> > with this and I try my best to avoid this, by using the Amazon Simple
> > Email Service, which provides the requisite degree of credibility to
> > the spam houses. I mention this because initial emails can still end
> > up in your spam folder, as some mailers alsoe need to be trained. If
> > expected mail does not appear, check Junk. Contact me if there are
> > persistent issues.
> >
> > I am critically aware that this is independent of this mailing list
> > and somewhat splittist, but I feel OLL is important enough to have its
> > own ecosystem,
>
> Maybe it's so important that it should keep this list's subscribers
> aware of its usefulness and progress?
>
> > and I am not sure that people on the LilyPond user list
> > necessarily want to read ling threads on details of Scheme parsers and
> > package code development and git topics.
>
> Sure.  However, average users might want to be informed when
> some significant improvement has been made such that there is
> now a new recommended/easy way for accomplishing certain
> tasks.
>
> Regards,
> Gilles
>
> P.S. I do not follow the "dev" list; maybe the reason why I've never
> really understood why OLL is not meant to be part of LilyPond itself.
>
> >
> > [...]
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