LilyPond Contributor's Guide: 13.4.2 Ongoing jobs

### 13.4.2 Ongoing jobs

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 with lilypond!

Also, it would be nice if we had at least one "replacement" / "understudy" for each role – too many tasks are only being done by one person, so if that person goes on vacation or gets very busy with other matters, work in that area grinds to a halt.

### Jobs for normal users

- Consultant: LilyPond is sometimes critized for not listening to users, but whenever we ask for opinions about specific issues, we never get enough feedback. This is somewhat aggravating. We need a group of users to make a dedicated effort to test and give feedback. If there’s new documentation, read it. If there’s an experimental binary, download it and try compiling a score with it. If we’re trying to name a new command, think about it and give serious suggestions.
- lilypond-user support: I think it would be nice if we had an official team of users helping other users.
- LilyPond Report: Keeping a monthly newsletter running is a non-trivial task. A lot of work is needed to organize it; it would be great if we could split up the work. One person could write the Snippet of the Month, another person could do Quotes of the Month, another person could do interviews, etc.
- Documentation: Although GDP (the Grand Documentation Project) did great work, there’s still many tasks remaining.
- Translations: Keeping the documentation translations is a monumental task; we need all the help we can get!

### Jobs for advanced users for developers

- Git help for writers: We often receive reports of typos and minor text updates to the documentation. It would be great if somebody could create properly-formatted patches for these corrections.

  Technical requirements: ability to run Lilydev.

- LSR editor: LSR contains many useful examples of lilypond, but some snippets are out of date and need updating. Other snippets need to be advertized, and new snippets need to be sorted. We could use another person to handle LSR.

  Technical requirements: use of a web browser. LilyPond requirements: you should be familiar with most of Notation chapters 1 and 2 (or be willing to read the docs to find out).

- Join the Frogs: "Frogs" are a team of bug-fixers (because frogs eat bugs, and you often find them in Ponds of Lilies) and new feature implementors.

  Technical requirements: development environment (such as Lilydev), ability to read+write scheme and/or C++ code.

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