[GNC-dev] How to contribute to GnuCash?

[John Ralls]

John,

Sounds great. No problem with promoting it on the website, and you're welcome to use our mailing lists for support if you like, you'll just need to have your support folks subscribe to and monitor the lists. Do you also want to use our Bugzilla (https://bugs.gnucash.org)? We can easily set up a new project to take your bugs. Your support folks will need to create accounts there and then identify themselves to us so that we can give them the necessary privileges.

Regards,
John Ralls



> On Apr 25, 2019, at 9:39 PM, John <john at vicinno.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for quick response.
> 
> Yes, we will commit to maintaining and supporting it for a reasonable time of forever. Thanks for your suggestion too, we will contact the Android developer for advice before we start.
> 
> To be clear: we won't do it commercially. The iOS app will be published as a free app in App Store. Our company is the contributor, which means we will do the followings under the name of our company: App Store publishing, GitHub repo, support/maintenance in your email list or forum, name in your contributor list, and others, not limited to the above.
> Also, we expect you guys list it as an official iOS companion app for GnuCash, same as you do to Android app, basically promoting the iOS app in your email list and home page link, maybe next to Android app, to let more users to use it, or no point to do it.
> 
> If you guys agree with the above, we will start to plan the dev work.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 8:41 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Apr 24, 2019, at 10:13 PM, John <john at vicinno.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am the founder of a mobile app startup and a big fan of GnuCash.  My team
> > has some free time now. I wonder if we can contribute to develop an iOS
> > companion app like current Android one. Can you let me know if you think
> > that's a good idea? and if yes, how to start?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > John
> 
> It's a good idea if you're going to commit to maintaining and supporting it for a reasonable value of forever.  The GnuCash team hasn't the time nor expertise to accept such an app as a contribution.
> 
> To get started I'd think it best to contact Ngewi via the GnuCash-for-Android support channels and discuss whether his design is portable to iOS and what lessons he's learned and improvements he might make.
> 
> Once you're ready to start work I expect you'll want to recruit users for usability testing of your UI mockups and later for beta-testing. I'm sure some of our users will be interested in helping, though if you're contemplating a commercial product you'll need to figure out the right way to engage with a FLOSS community.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
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