gnucash roadahead

[Brian Rose]

Hi all,
I have used Gnucash exclusively for several years 
and it is ok for me. However, recently
Quickbooks Pro came as a bundle as part of a Mac 
desktop I purchased and it looks very nice.
Is there some plan to incorporate an improvement 
on good ideas from other software?
Also, I went to the Gnucash site recently and the 
roadmap, architecture pages are very old.
They mention 1.6 as the stable release! Is there 
some plan after Gnome2 port and
converting the backend to a database, to support 
MySQL and have a web frontend with
AJAX? I looked at SQLledger and the site feels 
very dictator-like. It is GPL'd, but the
manual costs A LOT. Is there a need for web people 
to keep the GnuCash site updated?
  I am frustrated that Gnucash updates are so 
slow, so I am wondering what I can do to
help in the limited time I can give. What are the 
biggest needs/hurdles right now?
How many programmers are really involved in 
improving Gnucash? I noticed on a
cvs history page that there weren't a lot of 
different people committing changes.

Sincerely,
Brian
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