import/export bounty

[Ian Smith-Heisters]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Andrew Sackville-West
<andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:03:24PM -0700, Ian Turner wrote:
>> Why is it that all the bounties seem to come from people named Ian?
>>
>> Let me know if you get a response to this; I didn't get anything back from my
>> proposed bounty earlier this year.
>>
>
> I'm no core dev, so take this with a grain of salt... And I don't
> speak for anyone but myself and these are only my opinions of the
> situation.
>
> Gnucash is strapped for developer cycles. THere are really only a
> couple of people who are actively writing code at the moment. There
> are a handful of others who are very definitely *around*, but don't
> have time to do much more than answer user questions. There are a
> number of other hangers-on (myself included) who lack both the time
> and the knowledge to do anything more than surface fixes and bug
> triaging.
>
> That makes it pretty hard to come up with people in a position to deal
> with bounty work. Those who might have the time don't necessarily have
> the knowledge to dive in and get one of these things done. Those who
> have the knowledge to tackle these things don't really have the time
> or are buried in other gnucash work at the moment.
>
> Also, both of your requests are, I suspect, pretty big problems to
> implement in the current code base. The ideas are pretty simple but
> the solutions seem like they'd be pretty complex. I know that if I was
> to tackle either one of these it would take me a *lot* of time to even
> get my knowledge up to a level where I could start...
>
>
> A

That's really unfortunate.

Is there a possibility that if we got enough bounties together that
there could be a contract for a third party in this?

I'd be willing to donate *something* towards getting GnuCash out of
the sort of rut you describe. I bet we could get other users to do the
same. Perhaps a pledge drive is in order?

If the shortage of developer cycles is really as intractable as you
make it sound, I fear this project will eventually become stagnant and
obsolete. Should I be looking at investing my time and money into
another OSS accounting software project that has more steam ;) ?

>
>
>> --Ian
>>
>> On Monday 22 September 2008 10:48:34 Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I was recommended to post here regarding a feature I'd like to support
>> > the development of.
>> >
>> > There's two possible solutions:
>> >
>> > = Import invoice from CSV (fallback solution):
>> >
>> > * user generates a CSV with columns matching that of the new invoice view
>> > * open GnuCash, create a new invoice or open an existing one
>> > * click "import"
>> > * select CSV file
>> > * the invoice is populated with data from the CSV
>> >
>> > = Import/Export to/from any screen (preferred solution):
>> >
>> > * user generates a CSV with columns matching those of the desired target
>> > view * open GnuCash, navigate to the desired target view (eg. New Invoice)
>> > * click "import", select CSV file, the target view is populated with data
>> > from the CSV
>> > * click "export view as CSV"
>> > * enter a filename
>> > * a CSV file is created with data from the target view
>> >
>> > My main purpose is to import invoices from CSV. However, it'd be
>> > mighty useful to do this in some generic way, both in and out.
>> >
>> > I'm open to discussion on both features. I'm also open to suggestion
>> > on the quantity of the bounty. I'd prefer to pay per-hour with a fixed
>> > ceiling. If necessary, however, I can give fixed rate bounties on both
>> > approaches--I imagine the preferred approach would be more
>> > time-consuming and of more value to the community as a whole, so the
>> > bounty on it would be significantly higher than the other.
>> >
>> > I'm also uncertain how the project likes to handle bounties. I guess
>> > ideally I'd donate to the project as a whole and the project manager
>> > could get whomever is most qualified to implement the feature. OTOH, I
>> > can just pay a developer directly.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Ian
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