> On Sep 28, 2022, at 5:09 PM, Daniel Brown <gnuc...@djbrown.de> wrote:
>
> Hello GnuCash devs,
>
> does someone here have (had) a relation to the gnucash-android project?
> I couldn't find a way to contact the mainter "codinguser" and the project is
> abandoned: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash_and_Mobile_Devices
>
> Recently there have been a couple of people (including me) who would like to
> contribute/maintain/fork/rewrite the project to keep it alive:
> https://github.com/codinguser/gnucash-android/issues/913
>
> I have started a couple of steps to revive the project and will try to
> establish a new leading fork so that all the open contributions can find its
> way into the app. And as part of this revamp I would consider aligning the
> project to gnucash.org
>
> What would be necessary, to move and continue the project under the gnucash
> org in the future?
>
> I mean not only GitHub organization, but it would would be great to see the
> project as an official part of the community, with vendor "GnuCash" in the
> app store, mailing-list for support and so on.
Ngewi created Gnucash for Android as a Google Summer of Code project. The
previous year's GSoC student, Muslim Choclov, acted as Ngewi's mentor, and
since we were denied direct participation I arranged for the Gnome Foundation
to get us a slot. Several of us provided Ngewi with technical advice while he
was working on the original implementation, particularly with details about
which import format would work best.
Ngewi requested that we allow him to piggyback onto our (really Christian
Stimming's) legacy free UserVoice account; 2013 was about the time that
Uservoice stopped allowing new free accounts. Christian duly created a
sub-account for him and he used it for a bug tracker until he bailed
We haven't heard from Ngewi for more than 4 years and we removed the reference
to GnuCash for Android 2 years ago because it was clear at that time that Ngewi
wasn't coming back.
The short version of all that is that GfA has never been a part of GnuCash:
Once he'd completed the GSoC project he didn't interact much with us at all,
nor we with him or the GfA project. Every once in a while someone will pop in
and ask something about GfA on gnucash-users or the #gnucash IRC channel. We
tell them we don't really know anything about GfA and they go away. AFAIK--and
I encourage somebody to contradict me here--nobody who uses the mailing lists
or IRC channel regularly uses GfA. Add to that that while
https://github.com/codinguser/gnucash-android/issues/913 has been going on for
more than 9 months you're the first person to come here to discuss it and it's
pretty easy to conclude that the GfA community, such as it is, isn't all that
interested in GnuCash.
So for GfA to "join the GnuCash community", GfA users and developers have to
join the GnuCash community. A good way to start would be to hang out in
gnucash-user and on the IRC channel. When somebody comes along with a GfA
question, answer it. Encourage users in the other GfA channels to ask their
questions and offer their help in gnucash-user too. For the developers, engage
here in gnucash-devel and in gnucash-user. Do market research: Why don't
GnuCash more users with Android phones use GfA? Can/should GfA integrate better
with GnuCash? How?
Regards,
John Ralls
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