Let me start off by trying to avoid hateful responses... I worked in the software industry, and the programs I supported have had their share of issues. I remember (with hung head) when we went through a patch in which we would claim to have fixed a problem, only to have it recur, and then fixed that and then had another problem occur. It was a really bad time, and we took a lot of heat for it.
I also know that GnuCash is free, thanks to the intense dedication of a relatively small number of people... for whom and to whom, I am very grateful. However. I started using GnuCash about 8 years ago, and I generally upgraded each quarter as the new versions came out. My own experience in software led me to delay doing the update for 7-10 days -- just in case there was a bug that necessitated a re-release (and it happened just enough to make me glad I waited from time to time). I am still running 5.3 because (as has been documented here), the 5.4 windows release had a bug that left a process running. "No problem", I thought -- I'll just skip 5.4 and install 5.5 when it comes out. Well, 5.5 is out, and it looks like the Scheduled Transactions no longer function properly, especially in regard to variable placeholders. This is a feature I used and cannot use GnuCash if this is broken. This makes 5.5 also unusable for me. This is the first time I can remember when I could not download a new release - let alone two of them. I don't know what the problem is or what the best solution is -- perhaps everyone on this list could contribute a few dollars to give the hardworking developers a chance to "re-charge", as it were? Perhaps a quarter needs to be spent only fixing bugs and ignoring adding new features? Perhaps the developers just need to take a break for a quarter? I don't mean this at all in a harsh or critical way; I am just concerned that a program I really like seems to be slipping somehow. -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
