On 04/10/2013 18:51, Geert Janssens wrote:

On Friday 04 October 2013 18:01:02 Wm Tarr wrote:

> On 04/10/2013 15:15, John Ralls wrote:

> > On Oct 4, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Wm Tarr <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> On 24/09/2013 03:32, Robert Ratliff wrote:

> >>> Can someone please review some documentation I've written that I

> >>> would like to contribute to GnuCash? I've created a bug for the

> >>> change, and submitted my changes as a patch.

> >>>

> >>> The patches are in the bug report here:

> >>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708267

> >>

> >> I have a few comments to make, some are small changes to actual

> >> text, others more general. What is the best way to do it?>

> > Make your comments on the bug report.

>

> Done for now.

>

> RobertR: no amount of explaining is going to fix gnc's Budgeting but

> we might as well explain what it does and doesn't do as is.

>

> Are other people here OK with that approach? I might be able to fix a

> few of the reports but I don't have the inside-gnc knowledge to fix

> the guts and always just take it outside, at least I know my scripts

> work and what their limits are. So I sort of wonder if some of the

> reports shouldn't just be marked "may not do what you expect".

>

> I should add that I used Stable rather than Unstable for my testing

> but I don't think anyone has worked on Budgets recently. I can use

> either if anyone can tell me otherwise.

>

Thanks for your feedback.

Actually there are a few changes in the budget area in unstable.

Wow!

I don't know which or how much though. I didn't really follow the development as I'm not using the feature.

Is anyone?

I'll use Unstable latest when I next check RobertR's changes. Since I pulled code for the docs where should I look for the actual changes in the budget area? The code is often opaque to me :(

> Aside:

> ===

> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation#How_to_translate_the_GnuCash_

> guide_and.2For_help_files ===

> says

> ===

> If you want to edit the files on /Windows/ or /MacOSX/, we don't know

> yet a good software tool that can process the DocBook files so that

> you can see the final document. Please add your comments here if you

> have a better solution.

> ===

> I did it all on Win XP using cygwin (sans X) having googled in circles

> for a bit. Should cygwin or mingw+msys be a barrier to people

> editing documentation these days? the *nix command line instructions

> worked fine.

I'm glad that worked fine for you. Can you add some instructions to the wiki page ? That would help other people coming after you. Thanks !


Sure, I'd need a tester as my cygwin install is mature.  Is anyone
    perhaps from a *nix env (not essential)
    using Win (essential)
    but *not* using cygwin or mingw+msys (essential)
    prepared to go through the details with me ?

This may be an opportunity for you, and me, to add a small bit to the community

--
Wm

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