On 5/29/2017 10:45 PM, Bruce Danielson wrote:
I agree Dave, and getting that done in 100 hours I think is optimistic.
Realistically I think it is probably well beyond the scope of “free” software.
If the developers ever considered offering a “Pro” version of GnuCash, on a pay
per license basis, that might work. NCH gets $70 a copy for theirs, and I
think at its core, GnuCash is a better product, But I’m not really familiar
with Gnu’s philosophy.
Bruce
Commenting in the middle (for both above and below)
a) "Free Software" licensing means can't do THAT. What would be "legal"
would be OTHER software that produced feeds (files of transactions,
etc.) that could be imported into GnuCash. Not only for this. Think of
other business needs like an inventory system, point of sales system,
etc. BTW, that's often how large systems are designed, Thus where I used
to work, a number of other systems sent feeds to the "general ledger"
system << which was the accounting part >>
b) On time and cost. I don't know about Silicon Valley, but around here
where I used to work, maybe $100/hour. But the time is a gross
underestimate. Even if correct for the CODING time has left out many
other parts of a successful "project". Start with meetings of a USER
GROUP (+ business analyst) which will decide on exactly what this new
subsystem will do. Then a systems analyst specs the new system and a
testing plan for it. Only then it is coded. Then it is tested (user
group for that too). Where I worked they used to estimate the coding
part as usually 40% or under of the total time << remember, a 2 hour
meeting with 5 users and an analyst is 12 people hours >>
I would NOT be willing to get involved volunteering my time unless there
were a committed user group willing to do their parts. Too often we see
complaints after "does not do what I expected or what I need". Sorry,
but the new program IS correct, it does what it does, where were YOU
when it was time to specify what it was SUPPOSED to do? What it had to
do to satisfy your needs?
Michael D Novack, FLMI retired senior systems/business analyst for
one of the world's largest insurance companies
From: drkir...@gmail.com [mailto:drkir...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dr.
David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 2:44 PM
To: Bruce Danielson Cc: Adrien Monteleone; GNU Cash User Subject: Re:
Issues with Jobs and Purchase Orders. On 29 May 2017 at 16:53, Bruce
Danielson <daniels...@logroom.com> wrote: I see that clearly Dave as an
excellent addition – and quotations are related to purchase orders as
invoices are to bills and customers to vendors. Thanks for that bit of
insight. Bruce I doubt quotations and/or purchase orders will be added
any time soon - if at all. I did offer one of the GnuCash developers a
modest sum ($100) if he could add support for quotations, as it would
benefit my business. He did not do jobs for money, but someone else who
would, had no time to do the job. But the developer estimated adding
support for quotations would be 100 hours of work, and I told the amount
of money a software developer earned in Silicon Valley was about
$500/hour. A simple bit of maths indicates that to pay for this to be
developed on a commercial basis ($50,000) , which was far in excess of
the $100 I was offering. The developers have a roadmap,
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Roadmap which seems primarily on cleaning
up the code. Hence unless there was a substantial amount of money
raised, I don't think quotations will be added any time soon, and I'm
lead to believe purchase orders would be similar code. If someone could
find a GnuCash developer willing to add purchase orders / quotations for
a fixed feed, and there was crowdfunding to get it going, conceivably
these features could be added. But I don't think this is likely to
happen to be honest. Dave
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