Budget, cash flow and scheduled transactions - roadmap?

Nicholas Manville manville at doctors.org.uk
Tue Apr 12 11:19:03 EDT 2011


I think there's a page on the Gnucash wiki with a summary.

Nick.

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Doyle
Sent:  11/04/2011 14:34:58
To: Ryan M. Ward
Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
Subject:  Re: Budget, cash flow and scheduled transactions - roadmap?

Does anyone have a link to where this has been discussed previously?

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Ryan M. Ward
<silvercro_magnon at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Ok, not to send a bunch of emails out but I am not sure if my original
> message forwarded. So here it is:
>
> "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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> > From: silvercro_magnon at hotmail.com
> > To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> > Subject: FW: Budget, cash flow and scheduled transactions - roadmap?
> > Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 08:02:18 +0000
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> > Dang it, hitting reply does not always post to the list.
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> > From: silvercro_magnon at hotmail.com
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Ryan M. Ward
> >
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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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