On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 13:21 +0100, [email protected] wrote: > Dears Christian, Derek, John, Phil, > > first of all, let me express congrats to the great job you've done with > GnuCash. Its 2.4 release is here thanks to your effort and the skills you've > put into the project over the years. I'm really grateful for the thing you've > produced ... and I believe many, many users are as well. > > As far as I can observe from the mail discussions, this is a kind of > "balance-sheet day" for the gnucash now. You have evaluated the main > requirements for gnucash to keep pace (multi-user access among others and an > ease-of-development, among others). I would like to support you with this > conclusions. > > But the crucial question is regarding the volunteer's personal itch and > readiness to contribute to the future development or spreading among users. > > Please, let me ask you: where do YOU find your motivation in the GnuCash > development? What makes you happy participating in the project? What would > you expect from GnuCash? How can GnuCash satisfy yourselves? >
What is my motivation? I want to make gnucash easier for me to use. Currently, my main itch is around budgeting and reports, especially the budget report. > And: > Do you feel that there is sufficient power for the next development project? > Are developers ready to start working on the next release? What's missing? Is > it's aim clear enough? Is it shared? Is it perceived as an wishful and sexy > target? What is the experience from previous releases - how did it start? > What were the most important factors to start the development project? Is it > under process now, or do we stay for sake of lack of anything important? > > I can't code in C (nor in C++). Despite I believe I could do something to > help gnucash. Let me foreshadow something based on your responses (I'd like > to understand what are the biggest challenges of this project first). > > I'm a big fan of GnuCash. Thank you again. > > Best regards, > David Valicek _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
