FW: Budget, cash flow and scheduled transactions - roadmap?

[Ryan M. Ward]

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To: stimming at tuhh.de
Subject: RE: Budget, cash flow and scheduled transactions - roadmap?
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 08:01:17 +0000








enhancing the budgeting feature is a big priority for me as well, I have not had the time lately to work on it myself but if a team were to form, I would gladly join, time permitting.

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> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 09:17:04 +0200
> From: stimming at tuhh.de
> To: manville at doctors.org.uk
> Subject: Re: Budget, cash flow and scheduled transactions - roadmap?
> CC: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> 
> Zitat von Nick Manville <manville at doctors.org.uk>:
> > I would like a budgeting system that allows me to combine my  
> > scheduled transactions, budget amounts and asset balances to allow  
> > me to plan my future spending. This is for managing personal finance  
> > rather than business accounting which has its own rules and language.
> >
> > The current budget does not do that for reasons that were discussed  
> > among the developers of GnuCash several years ago. In the end we got  
> > separate budget and scheduled transactions systems.
> >
> > Is there any ongoing discussion of how this might be developed  
> > further now we have the two systems in the codebase?
> 
> There is no ongoing discussion.
> 
> Unfortunately we can't you give any better answer than the following:
> 
> The described enhancement is a good proposal and would be an advantage  
> for the software. However, as a volunteer-driven project with limited  
> resources, the GnuCash developers have their own priorities about the  
> features which are most likely being worked on in the near future. In  
> that sense, the current GnuCash developers decided not to work on your  
> proposed feature in the next 4-6 months. In case you would like to  
> have this feature implemented in any case, you have the following  
> option: 1. Start to program in gnucash yourself - see  
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development . 2. Convince someone who is  
> not yet part of the GnuCash team to join the team and implement your  
> feature. 3. Pay some of the GnuCash developers to implement your  
> feature - ask on the mailing list gnucash-devel at gnucash.org in that  
> case.
> 
> I might be wrong, though, and maybe some developer *does* see your  
> feature on his/her personal priority list high enough. However, I  
> doubt that to be the case.
> 
> > I am not a programmer so I do not know where to start in trying to  
> > develop patches for what I would like to see but I have been around  
> > computers a lot and have dabbled with some database work so I have a  
> > reasonable notion of most of the backend concepts involved. I would  
> > like to help where I can and I have some ideas of what I think might  
> > work and how to implement it. Where do you think the most  
> > appropriate place to post my ideas would be?
> 
> With the above being said, the useful place for posting ideas is here  
> on the mailing list, but don't be disappointed if nobody replies (as  
> explained above). Additionally and/or subsequently, you can post your  
> ideas as a bugzilla enhancement request so that it won't be forgotten.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
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