Tracking Money in Savings Account

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Ian X Waddington" <iwaddox at gmail.com> writes:

> Derek
>
> "the developers are extremely time-constrained as it is and we have WAY too
> many open bugs and feature requests as-is"
>
> Given the above is there a list of preferred feature requests that are
> queuing to get built? If so, how do the users influence the list? It would
> help people like me see what was coming and when best to be patient and
> where best to invest energy supporting, lobbying, testing etc.
>
> As "new blood" I'd like to get some indication that there are developers
> willing to add 'personal finance manager' type functionality to the product,
> for example TAGS or future forecasting, before investing time in writing
> specs.  I do not wish to appear in anyway ungrateful, I have free access to
> a really fantastic product supported by people who are clearly dedicated but
> if the majority of those making the decisions and really in control are
> going in a particular direction there is little point me or others like me
> trying to change things.
>
> Please be reassured that my intentions are positive and not meant in anyway
> as a criticism; I'd just like to know whether I'm pushing at an open door or
> running head first at a brick wall.

There is no ordered list, per se.

There is a generic list, which is contained in Bugzilla.

Priority is given to crasher bugs and bugs that cause data corruption or
data loss.  Following that, priority is given to requests that include
patches.  After that it's completely up to the developers to decide
which bugs/features they want to work on.

At some level I try to come up with (or encourage other developers to
come up with) feature roadmaps for releases.  But as I said before,
developers are all volunteers and can (and do) work on whatever they
want to work on.  Nobody can make the developers work on anything in
particular.

-derek

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