Proposal: Make Sibelius Dolet MusicXML plugin open source

I believe it's in our community's interest for the Dolet Sibelius plugin (
http://www.musicxml.com/dolet-plugin/) to be open source.

The plugin routinely produces better MusicXML than Sibelius' native
exporter — I encourage all my customers to use it, if they use Sibelius —
but it still can be improved.

As far as I can tell, the plugin is developed by a single person. As I find
bugs in the plugin's generated markup, I'd love to be able to report them
via a public tracker and perhaps even directly contribute fixes to the code
myself. Please accept my offer of free labor! :-)

This would benefit *everybody* in the world of MusicXML, for obvious
reasons. The plugin will get better, faster — which means everybody using
Sibelius gets better interoperability across the MusicXML ecosystem.

There's also prior art for this: an open-source Sibelius plugin for
generating MEI. https://github.com/music-encoding/sibmei

Who agrees with me? Can we make this happen?

(To preempt arguments that this is out of scope for this working group: I'd
argue this is clearly within "the spirit" of this group's mission, if not
necessarily within "the letter." We all want to reduce friction with
day-to-day MusicXML workflows.)

Adrian

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Adrian Holovaty
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Personal: http://www.holovaty.com/