GnuCash - A Call For Help

sedition writes "GnuCash developer Benoit Gregoire has written the State of the GnuCash Project. It is a call for help to the Open Source community regarding the open-source accounting software for Linux, Mac OSX, and more. GnuCash is one of the largest (287,853 lines of code), but least publicized Open Source projects. Now it needs developer support, as its future is uncertain."

Comments

Gnu/Cash?

[Anonymous Coward]

For a moment there I thought RMS was claiming to have invented money.

Re:Gnu/Cash?

[Gzip Christ]

For a moment there I thought RMS was claiming to have invented money.

No, that was SCO.

PS - they want it all back.

Re:Gnu/Cash?

[WIAKywbfatw]

GnuCash? What was wrong with the old stuff?

Re:Gnu/Cash?

[shaitand]

GnuCash is freely copyable and distributable.

I've just donated

[Anonymous Coward]

10,000 GNU dollars to the project.

Why have the crispy US dollars backed by the Treasury and US Government when we can have GNUCash?

Druids?

[RobertB-DC]

Sorry, I know I'll get modded down to nothing, but I've got Karma to burn and this just cracked me up:

Mortgage and Loan Repayment druid and many, many others.

I imagined the barbarian horde from those Capital One "What's In Your Wallet?" ads fighting it out with the Loan Repayment druids, like something from Star Wars II or The Two Towers.

By George!

[Anonymous Coward]

I think they just came up with the missing part:

1. Write free software
2. Ask for developers on Slashdot to share the pain with you
3. Profit!!

Impressive!

Obviously what they need most is...

[siskbc]

...a decent web server.

Greetings, Developer...

[Tumbleweed]

"You have been recruited by the GNU League to defend the frontier against Gates and the Quicken armada..."

was it ...

[middle]

GNUCash calls for help ?

or GNU calls cash help ?

Re:GNUcash sucks, Kmymoney2 better

[sharkey]

which behaves more like Quicken

It requires online registration, then writes that information to the boot sector of your hard disk?

Asking /. readers for help...

[cliffy2000]

Well, it sounds good in theory, but really, all you're gonna get is "In Soviet Russia, MONEY watches YOU!" comments and goatse.cx links hidden in the code.

God Help Us

[DesScorp]

"To get more developers, we must make it easier to contribute to GnuCash. "Casual" sex with Cmdrtaco to scratch an itch is much to hard, even for an experienced developer"

What if this wasn't a troll?

God Help Us!

Re:All by their lonesome?

[nutznboltz]

The Tao of Programming has two things to say about this:

1. There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: ``Which is easier to design: an accounting package or an operating system?''
   
   ``An operating system,'' replied the programmer.
   
   The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. ``Surely an accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating system,'' he said.
   
   ``Not so,'' said the programmer, ``when designing an accounting package, the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to the tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited by outside appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system is easier to design.''
   
   The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. ``That is all good and well, but which is easier to debug?''
   
   The programmer made no reply.
2. A novice programmer was once assigned to code a simple financial package.
   
   The novice worked furiously for many days, but when his master reviewed his program, he discovered that it contained a screen editor, a set of generalized graphics routines, an artificial intelligence interface, but not the slightest mention of anything financial.
   
   When the master asked about this, the novice became indignant. ``Don't be so impatient,'' he said, ``I'll put in the financial stuff eventually.''

Re:Wish I could code...

[Keltus]

Maybe they're having trouble managing their finances. If only there was some sort of computer program...

Re:GNUcash sucks, Kmymoney2 better

[Negative Response]

I think I just think that...

You sure you are thinking?

Umm...

[Steve G Swine]

If I want to deal with a quarter million lines of dependecy-laden code that the original developers can't make serve the purpose... I just go to the office.

Pass.

(Or is it a quarter billion LOC? I can't tell the difference anymore either...)

Good luck, though. After you turn it around, be sure and drop us a note saying how, k?

Re:Here's a workable solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah but then GnuCash would have to start keeping track of money...

Re:GNUcash sucks, Kmymoney2 better

[generic-man]

That's TurboTax.

If it behaved like Quicken, it would constantly nag you to pay $80 to unlock the "Premier" edition and advertise every co-branded financial service in existence.

Would you like a Quicken credit card? A Quicken loan? A free credit check? Free credit protector for 30 days? No? Then what do you want?

You want to reconcile your checkbook? Please wait while we charge your credit card to unlock Quicken Premier. Would you like 1045 free hours of AOL with that?

(sigh) I've been using Quicken since version 1, and I still remember the horror the first time I saw banner ads inside a program I paid good money to use.