Re: [GNC] Gnucash leadership team

2019-02-11 Thread Derek Atkins
"David T. via gnucash-user" writes: > Honestly, the decision is yours. > > I’ve been using GnuCash now for over 13 years. Back then, Derek Atkins > was one of the primary developers, having taken over for another crew > that had carried GnuCash from its early years as xaccountant. He > stepped

Re: [GNC] Gnucash leadership team

2019-02-01 Thread Cricket Onebit
First, I'm sorry about including the entire digest. It was careless and rude of me, since I've been around long enough to know better. I now get individual emails, not digests, and not compose on the small screen that makes it harder to check things. Also, apologies to Michael Stagle for Replying

Re: [GNC] Gnucash leadership team

2019-01-31 Thread Michael Stagl
How do you know Quicken is going to stay around for the long haul? As with anything important, have data backups, and have a backup plan as well. Be ready for the day either stops functioning. The Free and Open Source community as a whole is amazingly brilliant and robust, albeit politics and

Re: [GNC] Gnucash leadership team

2019-01-31 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Since the code is freely available, it isn’t like such an event would prevent someone else from stepping forward. Also, please trim your quotes when replying to a thread. I just trimmed a tad over 14 feet (!!) of quoted material. (not an exaggeration, I even measured it just for kicks) In this

Re: [GNC] Gnucash leadership team

2019-01-31 Thread David Carlson
I would like to add that GnuCash has several dedicated, unpaid volunteers scattered around the globe that donate their support the program development because they believe they are doing a great service for the users. They welcome new volunteers with open arms when they appear with the talent to

Re: [GNC] Gnucash leadership team

2019-01-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, Cricket Onebit wrote: Before I commit to a very large conversion from Quicken, I want to know that GnuCash will continue to be around and maintained. Well, of course, given the extent of climate change we have no idea what will happen with GnuCash. :-) Seriously, look at

Re: [GNC] Gnucash leadership team

2019-01-31 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Honestly, the decision is yours. I’ve been using GnuCash now for over 13 years. Back then, Derek Atkins was one of the primary developers, having taken over for another crew that had carried GnuCash from its early years as xaccountant. He stepped back, and several others stepped in. So, it’s

[GNC] Gnucash leadership team

2019-01-31 Thread Cricket Onebit
Hello, Before I commit to a very large conversion from Quicken, I want to know that GnuCash will continue to be around and maintained. Is the core leadership team large enough that a single life event (eg new job, new baby, sabbatical, too many changes needed because of an OS upgrade) will stop