pwgl-users: <MusicXML for PWGL>

[Kilian Sprotte-3]

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).

[Mats O Hansson]

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).
>
>
>
>
> E-postmeddelande kontrollerat av Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386)
> Databasversion: 5.11331
> http://www.pctools.com/se/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ 

[Kilian Sprotte-3]

Hi Mats,

thanks for the report - the problem is fixed now.

Of course, your donation amount has been reduced to a single 50 EUR...
Thanks a lot!
  Kilian

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Mats O Hansson <composer@...> wrote:

> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> E-postmeddelande kontrollerat av Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386)
>> Databasversion: 5.11331
>> http://www.pctools.com/se/spyware-doctor-antivirus/
>
>