Hi Chris Thanks for the pointers
> We've got plans for a whole slew more > reports, with a lot of near-working code I believe. So, if your report > is something that needed you might have some help building it, but at > the very least you will get some advice on how to do it. > I made some changes to the Latex reports (with Dieters help I might add) to consolidate quite large chunks of it into a single place. The idea was that the address layout, footer, header, etc were standard across most of the reports and so it made customisation a lot easier when you can change it in only one please Dieter, although my comments were out of order on a public list (please accept my apologies), I do think that if you are serious about benefiting from an open source model then you need to encourage people to contribute changes back to you in order to benefit. Otherwise all the benefit for sure is on our side that we get the code, but there is no major benefit for you in giving me the code? There have been a number of occasions that I have felt I would like to contribute to the SL project, but I haven't found it easy to get either a leg up, or some help with a bit of polishing and so most of the work has fallen by the wayside (I have a full time job, this stuff is just part-time). I have for example submitted one (incomplete) patch to ammend the way the reconciliation function shows information and yet despite some positive feedback on the list I didn't even get an acknowledgement that you had received my personal email about it?! I haven't progressed the work because I don't want to run my own private version and it's not worth my time if my changes will not be accepted (which is how I took your complete silence) Additionally I have tried several times to report a bug (and debug it) where stock gets lost if one uses the "shipping receive/sent" functions, then ammend and reports the related order/invoice. On about three occasions my messages on this subject appeared to be blocked from the list and I didn't receive any response from personal messages to you other than a single message that you didn't believe that it was happening? For other peoples reference, my years "updates" to the SL manual have recently expired, but I did buy one version of the book around 14 months ago. Dieter, I'm sorry that my budget doesn't seem to suit your prices. I have deliberately offered to pay for several bits of work in the past, and I most definitely *do* have a budget to spend on this software, but considering that high quality alternatives such as Sage exist for only 2-3x the price of an SQL-Ledger manual I really struggle to put up $12,000 (!) for a change to the tax calculation as per your quote. For others reading list, please do note that Dieter *has* been very helpful to me in the past, and I do not wish to imply that he has not. However, I *do* hope that he will take a hard look at the recent fork and try to merge in the improvements made there into the SL codebase and take onboard this source of new coding effort. My apologies again for the inappropriate post to the list Ed W P.S. Since I have now blown all chances of getting Dieter to do this work, if anyone is interested in paid work to implement changes to the SL fork to make it easier to work with UK VAT then please contact me offlist... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ sql-ledger-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sql-ledger-users
