Hi Michael,
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Michael Richardson <m...@sandelman.ca>
wrote:
>
> Erik Huelsmann <ehu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's horribly broken. I too use that workaround, but better yet, I'm
> working
> > on resolving the issue completely: that is, to make sure the
> exchange rates
> > get stored per transaction. Or rather, we'll start storing a local
> and a
> > foreign currency amount. Anybody who wants to know the rate can
> probably do
> > the math themselves.
>
> Huzzah!!! My CC bill tells me the two numbers, and I have no idea what
> rounding rules they apply, and the wire transfer people do some other
> thing...
>
Yea. I'm running into the issue myself that the CC company, the bank and
PayPal each have their own idea about today's rate.
One of the things I'd like to have on the reconcilliation page is the
> ability
> to enter per-transaction fees (including monthly fees and interest). So
> that
> if I invoice $1000, and I'm paid by wire-transfer, I usually get $992.50.
> So I wind up entering a bank transaction fee of $7.50, which is fine, but I
> wish I could do it in one place, and associate the two things. It also
> gets
> messier if there is an FX involved as well, and sometimes the 7.50 is in
> the
> FX...
>
This is a long-standing issue for me too. I'm affraid I can't fit it in the
current project: the current project is a branch of 1.4, which is pretty
hard to develop a good UI for. However, as I noticed, you are aware of the
fact that there are a lot of things changing with 1.5 (to which I'll be
porting this project, of course!). One of the things that's changing is
that it's much easier to build a rich browser-based client-side UI, which
means that it's much easier to add this functionality to 1.5+. I'm a fan of
small steps, so, I'd rather release 1.5 sooner than later (as soon as it
matures enough to be released, of course) -- which makes for some good
discussion on when to merge big changes like the multi-currency change. (If
it's not landing in the general 1.5 release, I'm going to maintain a branch
of it with the multi-currency code -- that makes it both easier to merge
into 1.6 *and* I'll want to use it myself :-) )
[ snip ]
> > Same here. If the fundraiser gets enough funds (and I finish the
> job), we'll
> > do the math in the screen so you can see the outcome and be the
> judge of what
> > the correct rate is or simply enter both numbers.
>
> Woohoo!!!!
> I also have some javascript totals that I'd like to add.
> My struggle in getting up to 1.4.12 was in part so that I could run closer
> to
> bleeding edge, so that when I patch something for myself, it will be easier
> to push upstream.
>
Ok. Perfect! Actually, just providing the patches as-is, might be enough.
It's a whole lot better than not providing them at all!
I also would love to have a G+ screen share to learn how you guys are doing
> testing...
>
I'm affraid you won't find much that you didn't figure out yourself, if
you're talking the PostgreSQL or Perl sides. On the JS side, I heavily work
with the Firefox and Chrome debuggers with breakpoints in the asynchronous
events. At this point, a lot is manual, I'm affraid (not the database side,
but the UI side is). However, since changes like the ones that have
recently landed on master ('frameless', 'PGObject') and the ones that are
*going* to need to land on master in the near future ('multi currency',
'financial rewrite'), I'm desperately looking for testing frameworks. I
think that automated testing is the only way forward, even if only to
establish minimal correct operation. I've seen changes break loading of
seemingly independent pages just once too often.
I'm now looking at this framework which seems to integrate with Travis-CI
and OpenSauce to do our continuous integration testing for both the
database side *and* the UI side (our database side and Perl regression
tests already run on Travis-CI): http://theintern.github.io/
So, if you want to lend a hand coding on our project, please just say so
and we'll help you get your development skills sharpened for LedgerSMB!
Regards,
--
Bye,
Erik.
http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP.
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