Zitat von Nick Manville <manvi...@doctors.org.uk>:
I would like a budgeting system that allows me to combine my
scheduled transactions, budget amounts and asset balances to allow
me to plan my future spending. This is for managing personal finance
rather than business accounting which has its own rules and language.
The current budget does not do that for reasons that were discussed
among the developers of GnuCash several years ago. In the end we got
separate budget and scheduled transactions systems.
Is there any ongoing discussion of how this might be developed
further now we have the two systems in the codebase?
There is no ongoing discussion.
Unfortunately we can't you give any better answer than the following:
The described enhancement is a good proposal and would be an advantage
for the software. However, as a volunteer-driven project with limited
resources, the GnuCash developers have their own priorities about the
features which are most likely being worked on in the near future. In
that sense, the current GnuCash developers decided not to work on your
proposed feature in the next 4-6 months. In case you would like to
have this feature implemented in any case, you have the following
option: 1. Start to program in gnucash yourself - see
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development . 2. Convince someone who is
not yet part of the GnuCash team to join the team and implement your
feature. 3. Pay some of the GnuCash developers to implement your
feature - ask on the mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org in that
case.
I might be wrong, though, and maybe some developer *does* see your
feature on his/her personal priority list high enough. However, I
doubt that to be the case.
I am not a programmer so I do not know where to start in trying to
develop patches for what I would like to see but I have been around
computers a lot and have dabbled with some database work so I have a
reasonable notion of most of the backend concepts involved. I would
like to help where I can and I have some ideas of what I think might
work and how to implement it. Where do you think the most
appropriate place to post my ideas would be?
With the above being said, the useful place for posting ideas is here
on the mailing list, but don't be disappointed if nobody replies (as
explained above). Additionally and/or subsequently, you can post your
ideas as a bugzilla enhancement request so that it won't be forgotten.
Thank you very much.
Best Regards,
Christian
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