[GNC] need help getting started

[David H]

Eric,

On the gnucash.org homepage you must have missed the "Development" panel -
first item - "How to help" points to
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Contributing_to_GnuCash which covers how to
help with development - scroll down to "Coders" section.  Further links in
it re coding standards, yada, yada, yada.

Cheers David H.


On Sat, 4 Jun 2022 at 05:04, Eric Hammond <eric at jehammond.net> wrote:

>
> To the group,
>
> A short intro: I have been a user of Quicken for the last 1000 years or
> so, they have gone from a business that cares about customers to .... not
> so much.
> Late last year one of their updates lost or scrambled years of my business
> accounting data, and my backups. Their help line help was "we are so
> sorry..."
>
> I discovered GnuCash in February this year and with a lot of very hard
> work and digging got almost all entries into it: the major journals balance.
> Six months of digging, creating and importing .csv files and seeing what
> broke. And repeat.
>
> I would like to convert my brute force AR and AP entries into the GnuCash
> format and have encountered some issues:
> Importing from CSV to regular journals was tricky, but I got it done and
> balanced.
> Is there any way to import the invoice data from CSV to the
> invoices-A/Receivables, and bills-A/Payables system and have the Posted and
> Paid flags set right?
>
> In the distant past I programmed accounting systems in RPG. Some help
> there.
>
> I have much programming experience (PC computers unfortunately) in C, C++,
> and Python: I would like to help with the project.
> I need help finding out how to do this, I have not yet found such in the
> website maze.
>
> And, how do I contribute the money I would have paid for Quicken to this
> worthy cause?
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Eric Hammond
> 670 Rainier Lane
> Port Ludlow, WA 98365
> (949) 244-3595
> eric at jehammond.net<mailto:eric at jehammond.net>
>
> "Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
> ― Mahatma Gandhi
>
>
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