Re: Renting Developer time to advance 1.3/1.4 - anyone want to chip in?

["Chris Travers" <..hidden..>]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:05 AM, herman vierendeels
<..hidden..> wrote:
> I am following LedgerSmb because my son runs a (very) small firm
> which uses this open-source software.
> I have already contributed some very tiny,minor  patches.
> (Submitter username tshvr)
>
> I was going to spend some time on the
> rounding-rules in LedgerSmb.
>
> I believe that for the moment  these rules are hardcoded.
> And spread out about a dozen source files.
> Or they are derived from the number of decimal places in another number.

Form::round_amount() is the place to start.  However, to track decimal
places, maybe, look at Form::parse_amount().  This might be the most
elegant place to start a patch.

Basically the issue is that we use Math::Bigfloat types for handling
high precision numbers.  We would need to store a precision somewhere
there for extra precision decimal places.

>
> I would like to integrate these rules in db-tables.
> So that one can have different rounding-rules per account/customer/vendor.

I would want to see a proposal for why this would be necessary and the
best way to do it.  Per currency or per country rules sound better.

>
> I join this observation to this thread because it's about
> contributing developer's time, developer's plans.

Thanks, it is appreciated.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
>
> Herman Vierendeels
> Ternat
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> 2008/6/6 Joshua D. Drake <..hidden..>:
>>
>> Chris Travers wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Ed W <..hidden..> wrote:
>> >> Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
>> >>> On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:01:05 +0100, Ed W wrote:
>>
>> >> Seconded - although it seems fairly likely that if we can just see a
>> >> few
>> >> serious sponsors then we can assume that 1.3 is achievable and
>> >> development will start on 1.4?
>> >>
>> >> Are you prepared to put a rough figure down at this stage?
>> >>
>> >
>> > One thing I would suggest is that 1.3 is not likely to be accellerated
>> > due to more money at the moment.  We are already working at maximum
>> > capacity to get it ready.  Once we get that branched off, though, help
>>
>> Actually, CMD has one more developer with cycles that we can put on
>> this. I was actually hoping to utilize him for UI cleanups but haven't
>> had the time to start talking to people about the sponsorships. He is
>> John Worsley and he is the co-author of the Oreilly PostgreSQL book.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Joshua D. Drake
>>
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