On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rob Walker wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:07:56 -0600, Bryan Larsen > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Bryan> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Rob Walker wrote: > >> >>>>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:15:00 -0600, Bryan Larsen > >> >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> > Bryan> 1. better investment reports. This requires a strategy to > Bryan> deal with things like commissions and dividends. My opinion is > Bryan> that this should be dealt with via meta-information. We > Bryan> shouldn't be setting account policy. > >> > Bryan> 2. better entry of investments. I'm not asking for a wizard, > Bryan> but it's a pain in the butt to have to switch account windows > Bryan> to enter commissions, etc. > >> > Bryan> 3. better entry of budgets. You may have noticed that I've > Bryan> spent more time on the budget output than on the input. :) > >> > Bryan> 4. graphing infrastructure, using a similar strategy to my new > Bryan> report infrastructure. The goal is to make it easier to switch > Bryan> away from gnuplot if so desired, as well as make it easier to > Bryan> add new graphs. > >> > Bryan> Except for #2, I think I would be a good person to handle these > Bryan> jobs. Unfortunately, my day job and my social life and my > Bryan> sleep consume virtually all of my time. It'd probably take me > Bryan> a month to do any one of the three. Any opinions on what I > Bryan> should work on? > >> > >> 3, 2, 4, 1. > > Bryan> That's why I asked. This is almost the reverse order of my > Bryan> priority. Did you put #1 last because somebody is working on > Bryan> it? Did you put #3 first because you'll use the budget if I > Bryan> add it? > > I put 3 first because I am having a bear of a time figuring out how to > put our budgets into gnucash. Yes, I will use it if you build it. I > will also try to help debug it and ask lots of questions while you > build it. Good. That's the response I wanted to hear. :) > > I put 1 last because I thought it was more like 4, and if you do 4, 1 > will go away. > #4 is general graphing infrastructure. If you build a report, it'll be trivial to graph columns of the report. #1 is "tell me what kind of return I got in the stocks in my RRSP account between Jan 1 and Feb 29, properly accounting for commissions & dividends?". and "what's the adjusted cost basis of the stocks I'm holding for my sister?" and "how much capital gains to I have to claim this year?" Is there anybody working on #1? Thanks, Bryan ------------- Bryan Larsen, Senior Software Engineer & fall guy Phone: 306 664 2087 x29. Fax: 306 664 4446 Analog Design Automation: Analog Circuit Synthesis? Problem Solved. -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
