Hello all, I'm trying to get clarity on if I should stop contributing to cli-ledger.
I've been starting by slowly updating the documentation, adding a user glossary and developer glossary, small things. I put in a new diagram to explain the parts of a simple transaction as a [pull request](https://github.com/ledger/ledger/pull/274). It was rejected as incompatible with the info format, a text based reader. On putting in a new patch that should work with this 1989 format, I get radio silence. I'm expecting that the info command is not really an issue, as I cannot find anything in the CMake files that actually builds these. It seems likely that the next items on the queue would therefore cause more angst. For reference, my queue for Ledger was, roughly: - basic transactions diagram (date, postings, elided amounts, commodity) - complex transactions diagram (auxiliary date, code, virtual accounts, ...) - reorder broken manual sections (promote periodic dates from under automated transactions, etc., etc.) - write Common Accounting Goals section (keep budget, buy/sell stock, tithing, organize years, load csv, etc.) - rename bad terms (automated transactions -> automated modify; virtual accounts -> budget accounts; virtual posting cost -> specific cost, etc.) - add keyword options for single character command directives (year is missing; modify for =; budget for -) - ... As you can see, this is a lot of daily incremental improvements, heavy on documentation. I don't know if this type of contribution is valuable to you; it can be a culture clash between "aim at along term goal" versus "make it better than it was". For a long term goal, one argues and weighs each change. For incremental improvements, one accepts improvements even when there are some counter-arguments. I contribute using incremental improvements. Tell me if I should continue contributing to this project. ---Charles -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
