Greetings all. I am new to GnuCash. I encountered GC while looking for an alternative to Quicken b/c I now run exclusively Linux on my home PC and I've assumed that Intuit has no plans for a GNU/Linux version of Quicken! However, I soon encountered several problems that made me question GC's stability (1.8.8 release). However, after perusing several of these lists, I concluded that GC does has a faithful following of both users and developers, and since I am a currently unemployed developer who champions free (as in speech!) software, and would like to have a stable cash-mgt app on my home Gnu/Linux box, I would like to contribute some time and energy to the effort to get GC up to an industrial-strength world-class application that can beat the socks off anything that Windows can offer.
I already downloaded and built the "1.8.8-branch" branch from CVS, and would like to attack some bugs, starting, if possible, with the ones that are keeping me from properly reconciling my check register. Right now I'm so new and have encountered so many problems trying to get started with GC, I hardly know where to start. Several of the problems I encountered are not even mentioned on Bugzilla, which concerned me, b/c at first I was not sure whether this might be due to something "strange" about my own box, or b/c GC did not have a wide enough following to keep Bugzilla up-to-date. For example, GC suddenly crashed whenever I tried to finish a reconciliation that didn't balance (b/c I don't have the true initial balance). I found nothing about this in Bugzilla, however when I tried it again after clearing only several transactions, it worked, and now I can't repeat the crash. (I'd like to know if there's an easy way to undo the "R" status of ALL the reconciled transactions w/out having to do it one by one so that I can reproduce this bug before reporting it. I don't see any point in reporting a bug that I can't reproduce!) So I guess my bottom line is that I'd like to help but only if I know that I can count on the encouragement and support of some key developers including whoever maintains the patches and releases. That isn't to say that I expect every patch I submit to be accepted, just that I'd like to know that there are one or more people I can turn to for help getting pointed in the right directions while I'm getting started and that my efforts will be appreciated by someone. Anybody there? Regards, -Larry Siden http://umich.edu/~lsiden _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
