docs: update HCAR for the november report

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-% http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2011-April/022720.html
+% hledger-Sh.tex
-% http://haskell.org/communities/05-2011/template.tex
+\begin{hcarentry}[updated]{hledger}
-% http://haskell.org/communities/05-2011/hcar.sty
+\label{hledger}
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+\report{Simon Michael}%11/11
-\documentclass{scrreprt}
+\status{ongoing development; suitable for daily use}
-\usepackage{paralist}
-\usepackage{graphicx}
-\usepackage[final]{hcar}
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-\begin{document}
-
-\begin{hcarentry}{hledger}
-\report{Simon Michael}
-\status{Ongoing development; suitable for daily use}
-\participants{}% optional
 \makeheader
 
-hledger is a haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley's ledger.  It
+hledger is a library and end-user tool (with command-line, curses and web
-is a robust command-line accounting tool with a simple human-editable data
+interfaces) for converting, recording, and analyzing financial
-format. Given a plain text file describing transactions, of money or any
+transactions, using a simple human-editable plain text file format. It is
-other commodity, hledger will print the chart of accounts, account
+a haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley's Ledger, licensed under
-balances, or transactions you're interested in.  It can also help you
+GNU GPLv3+.
-record transactions, or convert CSV data from your bank. There are also
-curses and web interfaces. The project aims to provide a reliable,
-practical day-to-day financial reporting tool, and also a useful library
-for building financial apps in haskell.
 
-Since hledger's last HCAR entry in 2009, hledger became cabalised, had 10
+hledger aims to be a reliable, practical tool for daily use. It reports
-non-bugfix releases on hackage, split into multiple packages, acquired a
+charts of accounts or account balances, filters transactions by type,
-public mailing list, bug tracker, fairly comprehensive manual,
+helps you record new transactions, converts CSV data from your bank,
-cross-platform binaries, and has grown to 5k lines of code and 15
+publishes your text journal with a rich web interface, generates simple
-committers. 0.14 has just been released, with 5 code committers.
+charts, and provides an API for use in your own financial scripts and
+apps.
 
-The project is available under the GNU GPLv3 or later, at http://hledger.org .
+In the last six months there have been two major releases. 0.15 focussed
+on features and 0.16 focussed on quality. Changes include:
 
-Current plans are to continue development at a steady pace, to attract
+- new modal command-line interface, extensible with hledger-* executables in the path
-more developers, and to become more useful to a wider range of users, eg
+- more useful web interface, with real account registers and basic charts
-by building in more awareness of standard accounting procedures and by
+- hledger-web no longer needs to create support files, and uses latest yesod & warp
-improving the web and other interfaces.
+- more ledger compatibility
+- misc command enhancements, API improvements, bug fixes, documentation updates
+- lines of code increased by 3k to 8k
+- project committers increased by 6 to 21
+
+Current plans include:
+
+- Continue the release rhythm of odd-numbered = features, even-numbered =
+  quality/stability/polish, and releasing on the first of a month
+
+- In 0.17, clean up the storage layer, allow rcs integration via
+  filestore, and read (or convert) more formats
+
+- Keep working towards wider usefulness, improving the web interface and
+  providing standard financial reports
 
 \FurtherReading
   \url{http://hledger.org}
 \end{hcarentry}
-
-\end{document}