import/export bounty

[Mike or Penny Novack]

>
>Hence, if *you* want to invest money and expect results from it, comparable to 
>a "classic" project, you will have to find a "project manager" first, or 
>alternatively you will have to put yourself into that position. 
>(Incidentally, your resume indicates you might actually be rather qualified 
>for picking up such a job yourself.) Without a person who acts like a project 
>manager I wouldn't expect any short-term results that meet your explained 
>needs.
>
>Regards,
>
>Christian
>  
>
Hits the nail on the head.

Let's say that wit enough nagging folks convince me to take on being an 
active developer. Well there are three things that would hold me back. I 
have the time (retired) and the experience (a few hundred thousand lines 
of code in my day) and while I am unfamiliar with the code base, I 
rather suspect that GnuCash is fairly small compared to the size of 
applications I had to learn about in the past (50-500K lines, multiple 
languages). BUT (some big buts)

1) I would need help/mentoring getting started working in an unfamiliar 
environment (Windows on small computers) and at the moment don't have 
tools installed -- no complier, language context sensitive editor, etc. 
I might not even know all the languages but that's not as big a deal as 
it sounds since once you've learned half a dozen, what's one more.

2) I wouldn't even consider it if required to "wear multiple hats". If 
you've ever done this "in the real world" you know that it is a very bad 
idea if the person doing the analysis/coding/testing ALSO is the person 
setting the priorities of what SHOULD be done first (project manager) or 
the persons deciding what the application SHOULD be doing and deciding 
if it is or not (end user testers).

Michael