I'd think that it would be worthwhile to have a good set of debugged and documented gold-standard reports.
There are far too many reports (*guilty as charged*); with many overlapping and many obsolete ones which become hard to work on because they make assumptions upon the data and are incredibly poorly documented -- it would seem many prior report-writers have enthusiastically added their work, and disappeared before explaining their work and report limitations. They also add/duplicate a lot of infrastructure, adding (unpaid) work to maintainers. Hence there is a general *need* for tightening infrastructure and removing old dead code. Hence we want to figure out which reports are underused. The candidate list seems very reasonable to make obsolete; any active users will hopefully raise their hands and we can consider alternatives/reducing the list. On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 12:11, David T. via gnucash-user < [email protected]> wrote: > > I am not a fan of keeping reports that *no one uses* included in the > application, on the offhand chance that some new user might decide to learn > scheme and the gnucash api to write a new report. As noted in the bug, this > has not been a particularly common occurrence. > > Geert's solution is a good compromise, IMHO. > > It would be easy enough to add a note to the Custom Reports wiki page to > explain how a user would activate this. > > David > > > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:24, Manfred Usselmann<[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Geert, > > Am 18.05.2019 14:20, schrieb Geert Janssens: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking at https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773198 [1] > > This bug proposes to remove a number of reports from the reports menu on > the > > assumption these reports are primarily demo's of what can be achieved in > > gnucash, but have limited actual value. This is about the following > reports: > > > > Average Balance > > Expenses vs. Day of Week > > Income vs. Day of Week > > Sample Report with Examples > > > > Instead of completely removing them I plan to move them to a separate > > "Examples" sub menu (the former "Sample & Custom" menu) > > IMO this is an excellent solution. > > > and hide this menu by > > default. It could be made visible by running gnucash with the '--extra' > > command line switch. > > Not sure that I like this. This would probably be the same as if they > get deleted because nobody would know that these reports and this extra > switch exists. > > I would just leave the examples menu visible. > > Regards, > Manfred > > > If you are actively using any of these reports please let us know which > ones > > and also how these reports benefit you in practice. > > > > Regards, > > > > Geert > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user [2] > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists [3] for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773198 > [2] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > [3] https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
