[GNC] Bulk Operations on

[Ulrich Schwardmann]

Dear Jim, all,

just for completeness: The statement you mentioned below didn't came not
from my side.

Conversely I completely agree to your answer. OpenSource is based on
best effort. This itself is a lot of responsibility. Good ideas are
fine, but any realization is often hard work beyond best effort.

Anyway thanks for all your best effort in this project.


Am 28.01.25 um 23:41 schrieb Jim DeLaHunt:
> ...
>
> Welcome to GnuCash. Your viewpoint as a user is very welcome.
>
> However, when I read,
>
>>> ... the importance of this
>>> feature so we might have a formal solution that we can put into the
>>> document section. Gnucash cuts into the prosumer market where users do
>>> need such "advanced" features. ...
> I interpret, "the GnuCash project should have a formal solution but it
> doesn't, and the contributors to the project are making a mistake by
> not delivering this formal solution for the prosumer market instead of
> whatever else it is they are doing".
>
> It is one thing to point out a shortcoming in a project which makes
> your use of it more difficult. It is quite another thing to have an
> expectation that you are entitled to someone else contributing work to
> fix that shortcoming.
>
>
>>
>> Any bulk edit feature needs some kind of rules on which decisions can be
>> made - either as static dependencies or via some kind of bayesian
>> filter. I prefer self defined rules, but in any case from my point of
>> view it makes sense to keep this part out of the business of the kernel
>> application.
>>
>> I actually find it somehow reassuring to have a well defined import
>> interface like QIF import into some imbalance account. Then, always
>> based on this well defined status before, an additional rule based
>> structure and process can organizes the transactions in a way that is
>> appropriate to the needs of the specific accounts. For me it is not so
>> much a problem but more a feature to have two separate steps for this.
>> My two cents.
>
> Yes, this is a good example of feedback about "this is what works for
> me and what is missing for me", without including any sense of
> expectation that the project should change direction to fix that.
>
> Best regards,
>       —Jim DeLaHunt
>
>
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Mit freundlichem Gruss
Ulrich Schwardmann