Getting money for Gnucash development [was Re: Newbie migration issues]

[Robert Uhl]

TC <tc at emailetc.co.uk> writes:
> 
> Mozilla, especially in the form of Firefox and Thunderbird, really
> does offer something (e.g. security) that is lacking in the equivalent
> MS offering.  But Gnucash doesn't, I think, have the same
> differentiator w.r.t. Quicken.

I'm not so sure about that: gnucash offers freedom and double-entry
accounting.  Those work for me...

> And I would have thought that if a young coder, with spare time on
> his/her hands, wanted to hack on some worthwhile and valued OSS
> project, a Quicken-for-Linux would be one of the top three projects
> (the other two being the kernel itself, and something like Chandler).
> 
> So, how come it doesn't?

Well, for one thing it's a complex domain.  For another, I know that I
cannot make heads or tail of the codebase: every time I've tried to play
with it, I can't figure out how to begin (I really want to add a tool to
set up sum-of-digits depreciation; also, I'd like the ability to close
out a file for the year and save the old year in a separate file).  I
just can't wrap my head around it.

-- 
Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl>
Man, if nature abhors a vacuum, she must really have it in for your
brain.                                           --Douglas E. Berry