on which part of their job, checks to make sure that everything is
running smoothly, and has final say on our policy for Issues.
-Currently: Phil
+Currently: Colin H
@item
Doc Meister: trains new doc editors/writers, organizes who works
@w{@code{-devel}} community into actually reviewing said patches, and
finally pushes the patches once they're accepted. This person is
@emph{not} responsible for training new programmers, because that
-would be far too much work -- he job is @qq{only} to guide
+would be far too much work -- his/her job is @qq{only} to guide
completed patches through our process.
Currently: Carl
@subheading Installing patchy
-To install patchy, you should run do the following:
+To install patchy, you should do the following:
@enumerate
@item
-Create a new user on your box to to run patchy; this is a security
+Create a new user on your box to run patchy; this is a security
step for your own protection. It is recommended that this should
not be an administrator. New users are created from System;
Administration; Users and Groups.
@item
Get the patchy scripts from
@example
-https://github.com/gperciva/lilypond-extra/
+@uref{https://github.com/gperciva/lilypond-extra/}
@end example
Patchy is in the @file{patches/} directory.
then logging out and in.
@item
-Run patchy once to set up config files. Cancel this build
-(ctrl-c).
+Run patchy once to set up config files, answer @q{@code{n}} when it
+asks for going on, unless the default config file happens to suit your
+setup:
+@example
+cd PATH/TO/lilypond-extra.git/patches
+lilypond-patchy-staging.py
+@end example
+Following calls of @code{lilypond-patchy-staging.py} need not be made
+from the directory where it stands.
@item
-Edit @file{$HOME/.lilypond-patchy-config} to provide working
-directories for your build directory, your results directory,
-compiler options and notification method. If you don't want to
-use email notification, then delete everything after
-@code{smtp_command:}.
+Edit @file{$HOME/.lilypond-patchy-config} to provide the location of
+your local lilypond Git repository, working directories for your build
+directory, your results directory, compiler options and notification
+method. If you don't want to use email notification, then delete
+everything after @code{smtp_command:}.
@item
Ensure that your new user has git push access. Follow the
@subheading lilypond-patchy-staging.py
-lilypond-patchy-staging.py is run with
+@code{lilypond-patchy-staging.py} is run with
@example
python lilypond-patchy-staging.py
@end example
Not much appears to happen except you can see a lot of CPU gets
used if you open System Monitor. There's not much point running
-@code{lilypond-patchy-staging.py} unless there something in
+@code{lilypond-patchy-staging.py} unless there is something in
staging to be merged to master, however, if there's nothing in
staging then the script won't waste resources by compiling
anything.
@node Administrative mailing list
@section Administrative mailing list
-An mailing list for administrative issues is maintained at
+A mailing list for administrative issues is maintained at
@code{lilypond-hackers@@gnu.org}.
This list is intended to be used for discussions that should be kept
@itemize
@item
-Clarify the various development tasks by writing down the polices
+Clarify the various development tasks by writing down the policies
and techniques and/or simplifying the tasks directly.
@item
code.
Having 1 more normal user answering emails on lilypond-user won't
-have a dramatic trick-up affect all by himself, of course. But if
+have a dramatic @q{trickle-up} effect all by itself, of course. But if
we had 8 users volunteering to answer emails, 6 users starting to
write documentation, and 2 users editing LSR... well, that would
free up a lot of current bug-fixing-capable contributors to focus
Although GOP is a short-term project, the main goal is to train
more people to handle ongoing jobs. The more people doing these
-jobs, the ligher the work will be, and the more we can get done
+jobs, the lighter the work will be, and the more we can get done
with lilypond!
Also, it would be nice if we had at least one "replacement" /
documentation. It would be great if somebody could create
properly-formatted patches for these corrections.
-Technical requirements: ability to run @ref{Lilydev}.
+Technical requirements: ability to run @ref{LilyDev}.
@item LSR editor:
LSR contains many useful examples of lilypond, but some snippets
often find them in Ponds of Lilies) and new feature implementors.
Technical requirements: development environment (such as
-@ref{Lilydev}), ability to read+write scheme and/or C++ code.
+@ref{LilyDev}), ability to read+write scheme and/or C++ code.
@end itemize
@item
anything which stops contributors from helping out (e.g.
lily-git.tcl not working, source tree(s) not being available,
-lilydev being unable to compile git master, inaccurate
+LilyDev being unable to compile git master, inaccurate
instructions in the Contributor's Guide 2 Quick start).
To limit this scope of this point, we will assume that the
-contributor is using the latest lilydev and has read the relevant
+contributor is using the latest LilyDev and has read the relevant
part(s) of the Contributor's Guide. Problems in other chapters of
the CG are not sufficient to qualify as Type-Critical.
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