Re: Contributing

[Stephanie Phillips]

Oh wow, that's actually very good to know. I noticed while perusing the
developer documentation that it's implemented in PyQT4 which I figure has
issues or is depreciated by now.

I'll look into this! Thanks a lot!

~Steph


On Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 3:12 PM Tom Brennan <tjb1982@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm not the right person by any means to delegate any work, but I've been
> lurking on the lilypond user list, and noticed they uncovered a serious
> issue in Frescobaldi (implemented in Python) with an old Qt dependency that
> has reached EOL, and is starting to cause serious issues. It seems fairly
> extensive (I looked at the source code briefly myself), but I imagine if
> you have the time and the inclination, you could become a subject matter
> expert on Frescobaldi, which appears to be used extensively in the
> community, by taking this fix on.
>
> It's my understanding that although Frescobaldi is used a lot in the
> community it doesn't really have a full maintainer, either, hence why I'm
> suggesting this as a possibility for someone who's very experienced with
> Python.
>
> Kind regards
> Tom
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 17:46 Steph Phillips <stephbotcoder@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi there!
>>
>> I'm an experienced Python developer with some additional background in
>> C# and C++ and would be really excited to contribute to LilyPond.
>>
>> It's definitely hard to decide where to begin though, so I'm hoping you
>> can point me at the starting line!
>>
>> Best,
>> ~Steph Phillips
>>
>