Re: Great work... and a question

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

On 4/13/07, ..hidden.. <..hidden..> wrote:

> Heh, no problem.  It's not THAT bad, just a bit clunky in places.
> It's certainly usable.  Anyway, I will choose function over form any
> day.

We are still working on it. :-)  THere are areas where workflow can be
enhanced etc.

> > We are working on credit notes.  Expect them in 1.3.0
> >
> > In the mean time, you may be able to handle it as a prepayment,
> > depending on your needs (against a different account, naturally).
>
> When do you expect 1.3.0 to be unleashed on the world?  I think that
> the only thing I really need to see is the receiving and issuing of
> credit notes.  Our FY ends 31st August, so it would be nice to start
> the new FY with a new system if I can.

I think it is very likely that we will have credit notes and a whole
slew of other cool features by then :-)

> I'm not a perl programmer (if I had my way, everything would be
> written in FORTRAN) but I'll be happy to help in any way I can, with
> testing and the like.

I think I am still traumatized by the memory of FORTRAN 77.....

>  What the open source world needs is a good
> financials package.  My particular skills are project management,
> compilers and Oracle, if you can make use of any of them.  I also make
> tea.

Actually....  If you can write PL/SQL, learning PL/PGSQL is not a far
step.  Our new architecture is going to be very stored procedure
based.  You may find that a good chunk of the app may be  within your
domain.  Again, that is largely what we are working on for 1.3.0.

Best WIshes,\
Chris Travers