Re: Looking for bug fixers/contributors
Roger. On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:50 AM, John Wiegley jo...@newartisans.com wrote: Craig Earls ender...@gmail.com writes: I have been thinking about this for a while. I would like to join the contributor big/fix crowd. I think if I can get more insight into the code I can write better documentation (value expressions...) Wen do we start? Any time you want! I guess I should have asked WHERE dow e start? I would pick a bug at random and just give it a try, and ask questions here on the list as you go. John -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com
Re: Looking for bug fixers/contributors
I guess I should have asked WHERE dow e start? On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:14 PM, John Wiegley jo...@newartisans.com wrote: Craig Earls ender...@gmail.com writes: I have been thinking about this for a while. I would like to join the contributor big/fix crowd. I think if I can get more insight into the code I can write better documentation (value expressions...) Wen do we start? Any time you want! John -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com
Re: Looking for bug fixers/contributors
Craig Earls ender...@gmail.com writes: I have been thinking about this for a while. I would like to join the contributor big/fix crowd. I think if I can get more insight into the code I can write better documentation (value expressions...) Wen do we start? Any time you want! I guess I should have asked WHERE dow e start? I would pick a bug at random and just give it a try, and ask questions here on the list as you go. John
Re: Looking for bug fixers/contributors
I have been thinking about this for a while. I would like to join the contributor big/fix crowd. I think if I can get more insight into the code I can write better documentation (value expressions...) Wen do we start? On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:38 PM, John Wiegley jo...@newartisans.com wrote: Michal Wallace michal.wall...@gmail.com writes: Ledger may *present* itself as an accounting tool, but it's not one internally; I consider it a triumph of its design that everyone thinks it is. What would you say it is internally? :) It's just a big old fuzzy bear of a symbolic adding machine capable of handling disjointed sums (aka balances segregated by commodity). John -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com
Re: Looking for bug fixers/contributors
On Thursday, November 22, 2012 8:01:41 PM UTC+1, John Wiegley wrote: Hi all, I view Ledger 3.0 as feature complete, and at end of life for this line of Ledger development. (...) I don't see much else that needs changing in the core code. Tagging 3.0 could be just a decision. Ledger is very close to that. I personally have two bugs that annoy me every month, when analyzing my reports, that are #784 http://bugs.ledger-cli.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784 and #787 http://bugs.ledger-cli.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787. I'm even thinking about rewriting more of C++ Ledger's ideas in Haskell, and merging those effort with hledger, so we have a better product that beats C++ Ledger in all the ways that count. For example, this would mean porting the commodity handling logic, the value expression language, several of the more arcane reporting filters, etc. If I do it in a modular way, Simon Michael can integrate the pieces at his leisure, and we can end up with a cool toolbox that opens up to a whole world of scripting and derivative solutions. More than 80% of my usage of ledger is involving commodity handling logic (I mean -X/--exchange), so this is the feature that I miss the most in hledger. Second is performance: on my personal file, hledger is 8 (resp. 5) times slower for a simple balance command (resp. register command). I am doubtful that Haskell will ever compete with C++ performance. About value expression language topic, what i personally miss is more documentation. It's been a fun ride, to be sure. Sincere thanks for all the work, I am now free from closed source accounting tool. Thierry
Re: Looking for bug fixers/contributors
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:01 PM, John Wiegley jo...@newartisans.com wrote: Ledger may *present* itself as an accounting tool, but it's not one internally; I consider it a triumph of its design that everyone thinks it is. What would you say it is internally? :)
Re: Looking for bug fixers/contributors
Michal Wallace michal.wall...@gmail.com writes: Ledger may *present* itself as an accounting tool, but it's not one internally; I consider it a triumph of its design that everyone thinks it is. What would you say it is internally? :) It's just a big old fuzzy bear of a symbolic adding machine capable of handling disjointed sums (aka balances segregated by commodity). John
Re: Looking for bug fixers/contributors
On 11/22/12 2:28 PM, Simon Michael wrote: Congratulations John! :-) Indeed! Soon you'll be John Simon Wiegley, as happens with all Haskellers after a time. :-) :-) I almost don't want to say this and make it real, but I have the feeling Or if there's a list of absolute showstopper release blockers, that would be good info for the new contributors. In the past you've said documentation was one, personally I wouldn't block 3.0 on that any more (it's good enough, and can be continually improved more easily than the rest.) I had been hoping the docs would be done before the 3.0 release, but after all this time, as a lurker and very happy v2.6.2 user, I agree with Simon... the documentation can free-roll relative to the release. It might even pick up steam as folks adopt v3 and want to see the docs improve... Thank you for ledger and best of luck in your new venture! Happy Thanksgiving! There are many many things to be thankful for, and open source is one of them. -=Doug
Re: Looking for bug fixers/contributors
Hi John, I'd love to learn, do some bug fixes and contribute to ledger! I do hope ledger development will stay active for I've just finished another major milestone of my personal accounting based on ledger. And I'm willing to spend some time in maintaining and improving such a great piece of software. Keep up the good work! Alexis
