The "Hybrid and Universal Text-Based Orchestral Instruments Simulator" project, aka Hautbois, as the name indicates, aimes to create a text-based simulator for classical music.
If you are a not a developer, please read this paragraph. If you are a developer, please also read the following paragraph (development).
Like in the real world, the program consists of several components:
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Composer
Composers use to write on parchment with a quill, but nowadays score engraving software provides the facilities. Some commonly-used formats are ABC, MusicXML, GUIDO, LilyPond, so on and so forth .
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Conductor
The "conductor" of the program, like their role in the real world, is to interpretate the composition into definition of music sequences. They then instruct the players to play the music sequence according to their interpretation.
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Instrument player
In the real world, the instrument player tries (possibly) to understand the conductors interpretation, and play out the music sounds. In the program, the "instrument player" is the sound sequence generator, who generate the sound sequence according to (for sure) the instruction from the "conductor".
The components in the developers' framework.
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Composer
(notation) A musical notation system that defines the basic symbols, i.e. musical note, bar, sheet.
(contrepoints) Counterpoint system based on pre-18-cetury contrepoints rules.
(improvisor) Real-time improvisation.
(gregorian) Melodic generator for the Gregorian chant.
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Conductor
(interp) Text-based sequence creator.
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Instrument player
(instruments) Instrument modeller based on FAUST and the Synthesis ToolKit.
(filter) Filter components
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Musical engravers
(typesetting) Typesetter or engraver that generates PDF and SVG files.
(monks) Typesetter for Medieval scripts of Gregorian chant.
Release that involves major break-through should use the name borrowed from classical music pieces.
Within each major release, versions are numbered by No.X, i.e., ReleaseName No.X. There should also be a global version identifier along with releasename+No.X pattern, started with opus or Op.