GNUCash as a maintenance project?
Keith Gallagher
kgallagher at fit.edu
Wed Jul 26 11:13:01 EDT 2017
hello.
Keith Gallagher here, software engineering faculty at Florida Inst. of Technology. This coming term I am teaching an advanced course in software maintenance and evolution; upper division undergraduates and graduate students are enrolled. (10-12 at this point)
I'm looking for a course project, something I can set the whole class on to work on as a team. I am looking for something that is mature, with lots of releases, has a large and ongoing user community, and, of course, has lots of "issues" that need to be addressed! I have contacted Brad Kuhn, and old student of mine, and he suggested GNUCash as a possibility.
All of the students in the class are familiar with open source rubrics and guidelines and use of appropriate repositories.
But before I send a collection of people to meddle in the work, I would like to have the approval of the community, and any guidelines or suggestions (or help) that you might have or wish to offer. For instance: should we do this is a group? Should we do this is a collection of individuals? Etc? Etc.?
The caveat is that once the term is over, it is highly unlikely that any of the individuals involved will continue to contribute. But I can guarantee, yes guarantee, that we won't leave it worse than we found it ;-) and that every issue that is tackled will be = thoroughly= vetted and approved before a merge is requested.
thanks for listening.
-k
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