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State of the GnuCash project

Submitted by stro on Mon, 2003-08-11 18:04. GnuCash

The GnuCash project is having a hard time. We may be headed for a dead end if we don't reorganize and refocus our
efforts. GnuCash badly needs more manpower (not just developers), and needs
to get it quickly.

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What more do you want?

Submitted by gouldtj on Tue, 2003-08-12 09:41.

I guess that is part of what I see as the issue. There is nothing more than I really want in GnuCash - it does everything I want - and I'm still on 1.6.x. I think that The GIMP kinda has the same problem - they've lost a lot of developers once no one has an 'itch to scratch'.

Now, I don't know how to solve this problem. One solution may be something like samba-ng. Where you basically fork the project to do some new, crazy stuff, while you leave the basic stuff coming out with new versions. Not sure though. I would hate to see this get bitrotted, but it seems like it is going that way.

Okay, I just had another idea (light goes on). Perhaps what would help out the most would be dividing up GnuCash into more libraries - so that potential developers would have smaller barriers to entry. Things like the register could be a library - and other apps may even use it. One thing I'd love to see is GnuCash using the GnomeDB stuff. I think one thing that has kept GNOME maintainable is that there are quite a few different peices.

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