[GNC] balance of interests between users and developers

[Gyle McCollam]

If the new version could be installed alongside the current version and data files kept separate, I for one would be happy to enter my transactions in both the new and old to test the new.  However, since the warnings are to not use for production or live data, I don't test the new.  I wouldn't know how to do that in Windows, but it would be nice to be able to do that.


Thank You,

Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

gmccollam at live.com<mailto:gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>           email

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From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2023 5:25 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] balance of interests between users and developers

Precisely because I am a retired pro, I have not worked on development
in this volunteer environment.

See, my experience was in a different environment when we had end user
commitment to the project. By which I mean end user TIME. Not "I want"
but "I am willing to commit to the end user part of software
development". In the work world I came from, about 20% of the project
time was at the start formalizing the requirements (what is this thing
supposed to do). So yes, we business analysts and systems analysts took
part in that phase, but mainly asking questions of the clients/users
"OK, but what do you want it to do in THIS situation?" << because
initially, all the clients/users picture is how it is to work normally
-- NOT picturing all the rare cases/exceptions that might come up -- and
roughly 80% of the code will end up being what handles these odd
situations >>

THEN maybe 30% of the time to make really formal definition and spec it
out and 30% to code it.

But at the end, the clients/users need to come back to provide the
testers, the final 20%. In other words, about 40% of the time commitment
would not be us analysts and programmers but USERS.

Of course in that "world" the users were there because they were being
paid to be there just like we analysts/programmers were. Sorry, but in
this voluntary environment I am NOT seeing the users who are saying that
they want thus and ALSO saying ":and to get that, we will commit to our
part of the project"


Michael D Novack


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