On Friday 04 October 2013 18:01:02 Wm Tarr wrote: > On 04/10/2013 15:15, John Ralls wrote: > > On Oct 4, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Wm Tarr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 24/09/2013 03:32, Robert Ratliff wrote: > >>> Can someone please review some documentation I've written that I > >>> would like to contribute to GnuCash? I've created a bug for the > >>> change, and submitted my changes as a patch. > >>> > >>> The patches are in the bug report here: > >>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708267 > >> > >> I have a few comments to make, some are small changes to actual > >> text, others more general. What is the best way to do it?> > > Make your comments on the bug report. > > Done for now. > > RobertR: no amount of explaining is going to fix gnc's Budgeting but > we might as well explain what it does and doesn't do as is. > > Are other people here OK with that approach? I might be able to fix a > few of the reports but I don't have the inside-gnc knowledge to fix > the guts and always just take it outside, at least I know my scripts > work and what their limits are. So I sort of wonder if some of the > reports shouldn't just be marked "may not do what you expect". > > I should add that I used Stable rather than Unstable for my testing > but I don't think anyone has worked on Budgets recently. I can use > either if anyone can tell me otherwise. > Thanks for your feedback.
Actually there are a few changes in the budget area in unstable. I don't know which or how much though. I didn't really follow the development as I'm not using the feature. > Aside: > === > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation#How_to_translate_the_GnuCash_ > guide_and.2For_help_files === > says > === > If you want to edit the files on /Windows/ or /MacOSX/, we don't know > yet a good software tool that can process the DocBook files so that > you can see the final document. Please add your comments here if you > have a better solution. > === > I did it all on Win XP using cygwin (sans X) having googled in circles > for a bit. Should cygwin or mingw+msys be a barrier to people > editing documentation these days? the *nix command line instructions > worked fine. I'm glad that worked fine for you. Can you add some instructions to the wiki page ? That would help other people coming after you. Thanks ! Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
