GNUCash as a maintenance project?

Dennis Powless claven123 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 27 23:22:20 EDT 2017


I think the reporting area has needs within gnucash, agree the request area is always in need. Students could choose one that had the likelihood of completion in the term allowed, etc... 

D

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> On Jul 27, 2017, at 11:13 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) <drkirkby at kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> 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
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