GNUCash as a maintenance project?

[Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)]

On 26 July 2017 at 16:13, Keith Gallagher <kgallagher at fit.edu> wrote:

>  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.?
>

It sounds a good idea. Students could also learn some useful accounting
principles.

There's a list of what users want at

https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request

my own favorite is the ability to create a quotation, and convert it to an
invoice if accepted

https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/2477299-implement-quotations-which-can-be-converted-to-inv



Dave