Budgeting - Users to help?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Sep 1 20:38:16 CDT 2003


Note:  If you are planning to work on any implementation, please work
from CVS Head, not from 1.8.

-derek

Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at newearth.org> 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
> 
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