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Contributors using Linux or FreeBSD may also use Lilydev, but if they prefer their own
development environment, they should read Section “Working with source code” in Contributor’s
Guide, and Section “Compiling” in Contributor’s Guide.
Begin by reading Section “Summary for experienced developers” in Contributor’s Guide.
• Documentation: for large changes, see Section “Documentation work” in Contributor’s
Guide.
• Website: the website is built from the normal documentation source. See the info about
documentation, and also Section “Website work” in Contributor’s Guide.
• Translations: see Section “Translating the documentation” in Contributor’s Guide, and
Section “Translating the website” in Contributor’s Guide.
• Bugfixes or new features: read Section “Programming work” in Contributor’s Guide.
Sponsoring
Bounties
In the past,
• some users have paid for new features
• some developers have added new features for hire
The LilyPond project does not organize such efforts; we neither endorse nor discourage such
agreements. Any contracts between private individuals is the business of those individuals, not
ours.
Guidelines
Any user wanting to offer money in exchange for work should bear in mind the following points:
• LilyPond developers may advertise their services on the lilypond email lists from time to
time.
• Any agreements between private individuals should include the normal precautions when
conducting business: who pays, how much do they pay, with what method of payment,
and upon what set of conditions. We suggest that any ambiguity or uncertainty in these
questions should be resolved before any work begins.
Interested developers
Here is a list of people who have expressed an interest in bounties. Note that the amount of
work done by individuals varies quite a bit throughout the years. We do not guarantee that this
list is up-to-date, nor do we guarantee that the people listed here have any ability. The only
criteria is "XYZ asked to be listed on this page".
Looking at the git history is a good way to determine who the most active and experienced
developers are. Statistics up to version 2.19.33:
overall history (http: / /
lilypond . org / ~graham /
gitstats-all/)
past year (http: / /
lilypond.org/~graham/
gitstats-1year/)
past
three
months
(http: / / lilypond .
org
/
~graham
/
gitstats-3months/)
Interested developers:
David Kastrup
Donations are required to let me continue my current fulltime work on LilyPond. I
focus on user and programmer interface design, coherence, implementation, simplification, documentation, and debugging.