Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Renting Developer time to advance 1.3/1.4 - anyone want to chip in?

2008-06-04 Thread lai
Hello Ed: I have been following this thread on and off so please forgive me if I am completely off the tangent. You know with any work one should really define the scope before there can be a cost and etc., and in this case here not having the scope could hurt you in convenincing anyone to chip i

[Ledger-smb-devel] 1.2.14-rc1 available for testing

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Travers
Hi all; 1.2.14-rc1 is now available for testing from our sourceforge site. The changelog is: * Build.PL now requires Test::Trap (Chris T, 1872529) * Fixed double escaping of tex under some circumstances (Seneca) * Added fix for bad summary information in AR/AP transactions (1800065, 1800069, Chri

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Renting Developer time to advance 1.3/1.4 - anyone want to chip in?

2008-06-04 Thread Ed W
Chris Travers wrote: > Ed; > > Actually, you make a good point. If there is this sort of demand (and > I think there is), we should look at accommodating it. > > To date, we have largely avoided donations and encouraged people to > pay businesses building the software directly. Maybe this ought t

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Renting Developer time to advance 1.3/1.4 - anyone want to chip in?

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Travers
Ed; Actually, you make a good point. If there is this sort of demand (and I think there is), we should look at accommodating it. To date, we have largely avoided donations and encouraged people to pay businesses building the software directly. Maybe this ought to change. Best Wishes, Chris Tra

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Renting Developer time to advance 1.3/1.4 - anyone want to chip in?

2008-06-04 Thread Ed W
Chris Travers wrote: > However, what is likely to take the most time (not labor) is just > coordination with the community, making sure that what is generally > applicable is separated from that which is not, etc. > I think you and Joshua are arguing against the very thing I am trying to achie

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Renting Developer time to advance 1.3/1.4 - anyone want to chip in?

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Ed W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > I won't presume to speak for the core devs, but I gather the limiting > factor is time availability for the people with commit rights. > > > > And to be clear I am hoping to rent 1-2+ months of full time >

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Renting Developer time to advance 1.3/1.4 - anyone want to chip in?

2008-06-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 21:40 +0100, Ed W wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Well one issue you are going to run into is cost. I don't know about > > Chris but for us to do that you are going to have to come up with (even > > with a discounted rate) 20k+. That is with a significant discount off o

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Renting Developer time to advance 1.3/1.4 - anyone want to chip in?

2008-06-04 Thread Ed W
Joshua D. Drake wrote: I won't presume to speak for the core devs, but I gather the limiting factor is time availability for the people with commit rights. And to be clear I am hoping to rent 1-2+ months of full time development from 1+ core developer. If this doesn't buy a substantia

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Renting Developer time to advance 1.3/1.4 - anyone want to chip in?

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Travers
I would just like to Josh's points that 99% of my work at the moment is going into 1.3. THere are a few more things that need to be done, but it is moving ahead fast. Best Wishes, Chris Travers - Check out the new SourceForg

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Renting Developer time to advance 1.3/1.4 - anyone want to chip in?

2008-06-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 21:06 +0100, Ed W wrote: > Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: > > I won't presume to speak for the core devs, but I gather the limiting > > factor is time availability for the people with commit rights. > > > > And to be clear I am hoping to rent 1-2+ months of full time > developm

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Renting Developer time to advance 1.3/1.4 - anyone want to chip in?

2008-06-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 15:47 -0400, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:03:22 +0100, Ed W wrote: > > I am interested in renting some time from someone like Chris (or > > similar) to advance progress of the next branch and get it "stable". > > Would anyone else like to chip in? I would

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] small Patch for 1.2.13 / show customer number in customer select

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Florian Reitmeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jun 2008, Stroller wrote: > >> On 2 Jun 2008, at 12:33, Florian Reitmeir wrote: >> > ... >> > we use Ledger SMB now for a while .. and have customers with a >> > large number >> > of addresses. >> > >> > So its

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] small Patch for 1.2.13 / show customer number in customer select

2008-06-04 Thread Florian Reitmeir
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008, Stroller wrote: > On 2 Jun 2008, at 12:33, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > > ... > > we use Ledger SMB now for a while .. and have customers with a > > large number > > of addresses. > > > > So its important for us, to see the customer number, while selecting a > > customer, and n