Re: Proposal: Make Sibelius Dolet MusicXML plugin open source

I wholeheartedly agree with this proposal. 

I can also recommend the plgToMSS tool, developed by Tido, as a way of making developing in ManuScript suck a whole lot less and make it much easier to use standard text editors and IDEs.

https://github.com/tido/plgToMSS

-Andrew

> On 16 Oct 2017, at 10:08, Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com> wrote:
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> 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! :-)
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> 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.
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> There's also prior art for this: an open-source Sibelius plugin for generating MEI. https://github.com/music-encoding/sibmei
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> 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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Received on Monday, 16 October 2017 09:17:51 UTC