Re: Openlilylib status

[Craig Dabelstein]

Hi Lilyponders,

Andrew, I feel your pain. I offered to help Urs a number of times but he was way out of my league with the coding side of things and I was virtually useless to help.

I use the Edition Engraver and Scholarly sporadically. What I think is that Urs was way ahead of most of us, and he had projects and needs that most of us don't. I would like to see all his work continue because I think it's amazing and Lilypond is far better suited to some of those high-level demands and projects than the other engraving software. 

Other than share a virtual beer with you and sympathise I don't know what else I can do to help.

All the best,

Craig

On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 03:12, Damian leGassick <damianlegassick@mac.com> wrote:

Hi Andrew

I was just waiting for an update (and feeling your pain about the server) before using OLL in a ‘real’ project. I’ve gotten familiar with most of it now and it is certainly worth keeping alive. I would use it but I worry about fragility. My python skills are too limited for the deeper tasks, but my offer for testing and documentation help stands.

I hope that more help is forthcoming - it does strike me as too big for one person.

Best

Damian



> On 10 Mar 2021, at 22:21, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bernard@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello All,
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> Some time ago I took over the management of the Openlilylib project from Urs Liska, who was forced to cease the work for personal reasons. I created a server to host a new website, a Git repository and a Discourse forum and Openlilylib specific mailing list. The old git repository remains untouched, but it is no longer taking pull requests. I was in the process of refactoring the whole git repo to make it easier to use, but have not yet completed that work.
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> To cut to the point, in a moment of complete stupidity I deleted the server this was running on without thinking to take a backup of the OLL systems. So the work has currently been put on hold until I make a new server and setup all the work again. Sadly, nobody has noticed the loss of the website or forum, which did have a few members, so I wonder if this is worth pursuing anyway.
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> Just letting you know where we are with OpenLilyLib.
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> If anybody else is interested in taking over the work, please write and let me know.
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