Re: Openlilylib status

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Andrew,

> 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.

+1 to everything Carl wrote.

Here’s a little more personal perspective…

I freely admit that I didn’t notice the loss of the website or forum. There are 
two main reasons for that, and I offer that neither suggests the project is not 
worth pursuing [by Someone™]:

1. When my life circumstances afford me the opportunity to focus on music 
composition, arrangement, and engraving, my projects are sufficiently 
mission-critical, my deadlines sufficiently overwhelming, and my skill with the 
existing libraries sufficiently good that I don’t upgrade my OLL packages 
*unless* there’s a bug that needs fixing or new feature that I must use in the 
current piece(s). During a period like that, I wouldn’t likely notice the loss 
of the OLL “infrastructure”.

2. During this pandemic (now in its 13th month here), I have had to take on the 
home-schooling of my two children in addition to taking on non-music projects 
to try to replace the income lost in the collapse of the live performing arts 
industry (which was my bread and butter). Which is to say that my life 
circumstances *don’t* currently afford me the opportunity to focus on music 
(see Point #1), and thus I have *even less* time or reason to notice the loss 
of the OLL infrastructure.

That being said, OLL has been — and will, I imagine, continue to be — 
absolutely critical to my music career toolchain / workflow, and I hope the 
world recovers to the point that I can be composing and arranging and engraving 
again. Whenever that is, it would be devastating to discover that OLL had 
fallen off the cliff (frozen in its current state).

I know I’m just another “Must have this, but aren’t contributing in any 
concrete way” voice… But perhaps hearing enough of us feebly shouting from the 
rear will convince you — and hopefully more Someones™ — to keep bearing the 
standard and dragging us forward to greater things.

Thanks, and best wishes,
Kieren.
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Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his)
‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info
‣ email: kieren@kierenmacmillan.info