Note: If you are planning to work on any implementation, please work from CVS Head, not from 1.8.
-derek Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
