[GNC-dev] I'd like to contribute to the GnuCash project, starting with the documentation - now also development

[rob.laan at chello.nl]

Hi,

In addition to the message below, after investigating and testing the import business data functionality, reading the code, and registering a number of bugs, I decided to try and fix the bugs myself.
So I assigned the bugs to myself, and have started fixing them locally. I have also started updating the doxygen information in the code. And I have created new user documentation for import bills & invoices.
I am now in the process of investigating the import customers & vendors functionality, and updating documentation for the same.

It is my intention to submit patches for code and user documentation once I have completed the work on both import bills & invoices and import customers and vendors.

On my development skills, I’ve had formal development training, using Pascal and Modula 2, and used C to create an application on my Macintosh+, but that was about 30 years ago. My job was first in accounting, and later in IT (SAP).
I did development in ABAP (the SAP programming language), but that was about 20 years ago. Since then, I have often done some programming for work or fun (in Visual Basic, PHP), but never in depth.
All in all, I think I have the skills to tackle bugs in the functional domain, and the common sense to stay away from stuff I don’t understand. 

Regards,

Rob Laan

> On 17 Dec 2018, at 10:46, Rob Laan <rob.laan at chello.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I’d like to contribute to the GnuCash project, starting with the documentation. Is there someone coordinating the documentation effort?
> 
> My intention is to start with an update of chapter 18 Importing Business Data, of the Concepts en Tutorial Guide. 
> 
> Some background on myself: I started using GnuCash just a few months ago, for some very simple accounting, so I’m definitely not an experienced GnuCash user. But I understand accounting quite well, and I have 15+ years of experience in implementation and maintenance of the financial and logistic modules of a large ERP system (SAP), doing business analysis, system configuration and documentation, development specification, testing and debugging, and user training. I.e. I know finance processes in IT systems. I am not a trained or experienced developer, but I can read an debug code.
> 
> I am using GnuCash 3.3. on OS X High Sierra. I have cloned the git repositories for the program and the documentation. I have compiled the program using Xcode as IDE, and I have compiled the documentation to html. I think I have read most of the stuff on ‘contributing to documentation’ on gnucash.org <http://gnucash.org/> and the wiki, and I did some self training on git and DocBook (which are new to me).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rob Laan