Re: pwgl-users: <MusicXML for PWGL>

> Hi,
>
> I visited your donation page and donated 50 Euro. (Or told I am willing to
> donate)
> After I had pressed Confirm and the "thank you"-page was loaded
> I clicked update (F5) to see if the status bar had changed. Later I did
> that again a few times. Each time it added 50 Euro to the status bar.
> I suspect my donation of 50 got recorded several times thus indicating
> 200. Could you please check it out? The webpage should not behave like this.
> Maybe others will do the same and causing a faulty sum.
>
> Best regards
>
> Mats O Hansson
> www.MySpace.com/MatsOHansson
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kilian Sprotte"
> <kilian.sprotte@...>
> To: <pwgl-users@...>
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 1:59 PM
> Subject: pwgl-users: <MusicXML for PWGL>
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> as most of you probably know in our team we have currently two
>> full-time developers (Mikael and Mika) and two more or less part-time
>> members (Vesa and Kilian).
>>
>> We do get an increasing amount of features requests that are not part
>> of the PWGL main development track. We have done our best to fix user
>> reported bugs and add minor features by requests. To allocate our
>> small resources for bigger and more specific user-requested projects
>> has proven to be very difficult in practise.
>>
>> We would like to offer an alternative approach for dealing with new
>> feature requests that we get from our users. This is to introduce the
>> possibility for a sponsored feature, like this is commonplace in
>> LilyPond development, for example.
>>
>> We feel that this kind of arrangement would serve best both the
>> developer and the users: It would more easily allow us to allocate
>> resources to develop specific feature sets aside the main track
>> (possibly urgently needed by a single person), and it would allow us
>> to develop bigger modules that we currently don't have the capacity
>> for.
>>
>> Of course, we hope that this will be received positively by the user
>> community, but we also would like to know about any critical comments
>> you might want to make.
>>
>> Nevertheless, let us emphasize that we have a strong commitment of
>> keeping PWGL as free software.
>>
>> Regards,
>> the PWGL devel team
>>
>>
>> THE PILOT PROJECT
>>
>> To test the idea of a sponsored PWGL feature we would like to propose
>> a pilot project: MusicXML export/import.
>>
>> This has already been requested several times on our Mailing list and
>> also privately, but it is not a trivial task. Therefore, we would like
>> to ask for donations in order to allow us to allocate a full-time
>> developer for it over one month (concretely, Kilian Sprotte is going
>> to take over this project).
>>
>> As a first step, we have set up a web page at
>> http://pwgl.homeip.net:8080
>>
>> Currently, there is no way to make a payment, we only would like to
>> know, who would be willing to support this development. You'll find
>> more details and a simple form to fill in on the web page.
>>
>> If there is enough feedback, we would then enter a second phase and
>> actually ask you to proceed with the payment (credit card with
>> PayPal).
>>
>>
>>
>>
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