testing the book zeroing code (maybe for backport?)

[Manfred Usselmann]

Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> schrieb am Sat, 2 Feb 2008 08:37:42
-0500:

> On Saturday 02 February 2008 03:34:59 am Christian Stimming wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2008 22:18 schrieb Andreas Köhler:
> > > > Over this weekend I implemented a simple book closing feature
> > > > that lets you zeroize the Income and Expense accounts into
> > > > Equity.  It's comprised of changesets r16713, 16714, and 16715.
> > > > It's only impemented in the trunk branch at the moment.
> > > >
> > > > Please test and comment and let me know if you find any
> > > > problems with it.  If it works well and doesn't have many
> > > > issues maybe we can get it into 2.2.3 or 2.2.4.
> > >
> > > what do you think, shall we consider this for GnuCash 2.2.4?
> >
> > I'd say yes for back-port. I haven't tested this myself, though, but
> > compared to other features we have in 2.2.x it is probably complete
> > enough.
> >
> 
> Unless it's changed from the last time I tried it at the end of
> December, I'd recommend against backport. Adding features that are
> "probably complete enough" isn't a good idea, IMO. 

What exactly needs to be changed from your perspective to make it good
enough? As far as I remember the discussion in December, there was
no serious issue open? Or did I miss something?

This function would be very useful for me to close 2007. Currently I
didn't do it manually because I was hoping the function would be
available in the near future. So I would love to see it in 2.2.4. 

:-)

Manfred

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 Manfred Usselmann                            usselmann.m at icg-online.de