Downloadable the: LSR in dismission

For who has interest.
I prepared a backup-download for the LSR.
You can find all  here:  (it seems to be still online (the last download is from this morning)
https://github.com/eefweenink/LSRDump

Just zip and download.
PS: And hope somebody is able to turn this into a nice new knowledge thing (Maybe using AI to build something).

Regards, Eef

Op 14-10-2025, 21:08 heeft [email protected] <[email protected]> geschreven:

Le lundi 30 juin 2025 à 05:00 +0000, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
> > the LSR is officially in dismission. I'm moving all my services to
> > some new hardware, and LSR won't be part of the move.  I'll keep
> > around the old hardware for a few months, but then I'll turn it off.
>
> > LSR has been useful, I'm sure, for a lot of people, but by now you
> > can more easily ask to any AI information like that provided by the
> > LSR.  At this point I simply don't have the time to maintain it, and
> > I haven't been using Lilypond in almost 10 years.
>
> > Moving the service is a nightmare because the LSR uses more than a
> > dozen different technologies that must be all configured and
> > synchronized.  Some of those technologies rely on obsolete libraries
> > that have become very difficult to integrate.
>
> > Of course, if someone wants to install and maintain the whole thing
> > elsewhere I can assist.
>
>
> Thanks for the heads-up – and thanks for taking care of the LSR for
> such a long time!
>
> IMHO, the LSR is indispensable for the LilyPond community, and I don't
> think that AI is a viable replacement, especially if you want to
> browse examples or see them rendered.  Alas, I have zero experience
> with writing interactive HTML code that is run on a server...
>
> Anyway, here are some ideas.
>
> * Use 'lsr.lilypond.org' as a new URL.
>
> * Set up the LSR itself as a git repository, mainly to not lose the
>   history of snippets (which seems to be the case right now, AFAIK).
>   From this, a database for searching could be generated on the fly if
>   necessary.
>
> * The code for a new LSR interface should be put into a repository,
>   too.  Given that the LSR is probably not a high-traffic site, I
>   could imagine to use gitlab itself for servicing.  I don't know
>   whether this is possible, though.




Hi folks, revenant here. (I happened to be browsing
the lilypond-devel archives for unrelated reasons.)

I just wanted to mention that there's a lot of wiki
software out there and in particular there is already
a MediaWiki extension (used on Wikipedia) for adding
LilyPond scores.

  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score

So that might be an option to get account management,
search, edit history, talk pages, categorization, etc,
without coding all of that yourself. But I have zero
experience as to whether this stuff is easy to install
and maintain.

[Please keep me CCed in replies as I'm not subscribed
to this list anymore.]

Best,
Jean