On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 07:13, Stewart V. Wright wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been reading the users mailing list to find information about > my particular itch that needs scratching by GnuCash: Budgeting.
Budgeting is my particular itch too. I've just downloaded the 1.8.5 source and built it so that I can start. > I realised that this is an issue that you keep getting asked the > "when" question... > > I have had a few ideas about it and after seeing Benoit's "State of > the Project" document I want to help. > > > My idea was to get a discussion going on the users list, collecting > what we users want. Then I was thinking, depending on activity - > maybe once a week, bringing a "this is what we want" discussion over > to this list. Great. I'm happy to let you get that going. I'll spend some time looking at how gnucash is architected. > The point is to simplify the discussion (and your workload) so that > than you developers needn't answer every little issue that is brought > up. Rather being able to say "Proposal 15 is not implementable > in the current code base", or (hopefully) "OK that should be > straightforward". This does not mean that the code will be > implemented, but if a clear plan of what _is_ to be done, then some of > us newly motivated users can have a clear target to aim at. > > The difficulty I see with implementing budgeting is that there doesn't > seem to be a clear idea of what the user base wants to see, and more > importantly, what is possible within the architecture that exists. Well, almost anything can be implemented. It may be more or less difficult and the architecture may need to change to a greater or lesser degree. The important thing is what do the users want. > I haven't seen any (formal?) discussions of how budgeting would be > implemented, so I'm guessing we (the user list) could perhaps aide in > this development. > > However, before I start stirring on the user list, are their any ideas > that people are actually working on at the moment, or does anyone have > a reason that I shouldn't do this? As mentioned in another e-mail there was a discussion back in April. There are 2 parts to budgeting that I see. 1) Tools to produce a budget - forecasting, GUI to set up budget 2) Tools to monitor a budget - budget vs actual reports My current need is for a month-by-month budget. Other people have mentioned longer budgets for e.g. an 18 month project. I think we need to have multiple budgets simultaneously. Phil _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
