On Apr 4, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Muslim Chochlov wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The good news are that one student (Ngewi Fet) has submitted his proposal for 
> mobile application.
> And AFAIK another one (Atul) is going to submit as well.
> The bad news are that Ngewi's proposal doesn't seem to make it through. Apart 
> from basic information about the application
> he is going to develop there is nothing that can make him stand out of the 
> crowd of other participants. I don't know how many slots Gnome will receive
> but they already have 5-6 very strong proposals and it would be extremely 
> hard for Ngewi to compete with them. Currently I would rate him 2-3 out of 5 
> and I have to admit I expected more from him.
> You could find his application here [1]
> 
> [1] 
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/ngewif/1


Muslim,

You wrote on your comment to Ngewi's proposal:
> Also it is very important that you understand how import/export in GnuCash 
> works and QIF file format. Because this is the main purpose of the GnuCash 
> mobile application.

You know that there is no export from Gnucash, right? The export menu items 
write a chart of accounts to an empty Gnucash file or, on reports, write out 
the HTML from the report to file.

If Ngewi's (or Atul's, if he gets around to writing a proposal) app is to get 
information from Gnucash I think that the only option is for it to parse the 
XML data file.

On a related note, Marina Zhurakhinskaya (one of the Gnome admins) is 
commenting on all proposals that don't have a pointer to an existing 
contribution. Do either Atul or Ngewi have the C experience to knock out a 
couple of bugs? It's not really germane to their proposals, because those will 
be written in Java, but it seems to be a Gnome GSoC requirement. 

Regards,
John Ralls


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