Re: Help

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 20/11/2021 à 14:52, Carl Sorensen a écrit :
> The "whole army of programmers that works for lilypond" is probably 
> less than 20 part-time volunteers.  Most of them are not modern music 
> experts.
>
> If you would like to develop documentation for modern music, you are 
> welcome to contribute it.  We'd love to have your help!


Well, it's easy to get an idea:

jean@laptop-jean:~/repos/lilypond$ git shortlog -ns --since="1 month"
    29  Dan Eble
    19  Han-Wen Nienhuys
    16  Jean Abou Samra
    11  Jonas Hahnfeld
    11  Werner Lemberg
     5  David Kastrup
     1  James Lowe
     1  Timofey

These are the commit counts in the last month.
(A "commit" is one atomic change.)

We don't have more than 10 active developers in
total I think.

I would add another reason, and a much more important
one: volunteers work on whatever interests them at a
given moment. That's how free software works. If you
want a feature, the most straightforward way is to
implement it yourself.

Finally, there is a significant reason related to
the nature of contemporary notation: it is usually
nonstandard. Every composer has their own systems.
Given that, it's hard to know what is relevant
for putting in the core.

Best,
Jean