GnuCash 6.0

[John Ralls]

There’s lots of major work on the agenda. The problem is that nobody’s working on any of it.

I’d certainly slip-stream a rewrite of the QIF importer, but a completely new reports system would be worthy of a major release.

Extending the 5.x series for a few more years is the alternative to switching to year-based versions.

Please, please, please discuss your design and implementation plans here to get consensus agreement before you start writing code, then make your feature branch public and get frequent reviews. A major PR like either of those written in a vacuum is very unlikely to be merged.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Mar 30, 2025, at 19:12, Brian Rater <blrnh94 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We still have some major things in the pipeline that would warrant a major release, it's just that noone has had available time to work them.  I am still planning to rewrite qif import and should have time to work on this now that I am retired.  I am still hoping to finish it this year and then I'm planning to look into a major replacement of reports, which will likely take a couple of years.  Perhaps we continue with minor number revisions until we have something major.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 7:38 PM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com <mailto:derek at ihtfp.com>> wrote:
>> Or, if it's March... 26.03
>> 
>> -derek
>> 
>> On Sun, March 30, 2025 7:28 pm, John Ralls wrote:
>> > We’re now a year from the scheduled release of 6.0 and we don’t even have
>> > a future branch to base it on. Aside from Bob’s brief foray into migrating
>> > to Gtk4 it seems that our policy of doing minor-to-medium improvements
>> > combined with a general lack of time leaves us with nothing to make a
>> > major release out of.
>> >
>> > Is it time to switch to date-based versioning like Ubuntu along with more
>> > or less continuous integration, so next March we release 26-01 instead of
>> > 6.0?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > John Ralls
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