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NOTES

@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 hledger project notes
 
+* principles
+** We aim to make reliable, maintainable, usable, useful software, sustainably.
+** "bugs" are errors, as in the programmers messed up
+** packaging before docs before tests before fixes before refactoring before features
+** automate
+** measure
+** test continuously, test everything
+** less is more
+** pair programming
+** inspiration
 "...simplicity of design was the most essential, guiding principle.
 Clarity of concepts, economy of features, efficiency and reliability of
 implementations were its consequences." --Niklaus Wirth
@@ -8,40 +18,30 @@ implementations were its consequences." --Niklaus Wirth
 skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids
 clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra
 
-We aim to make reliable, maintainable, usable software, sustainably.
-- pair programming
-- test-driven development
-- fixes, docs, packaging, testing before features
-- "bugs" are "errors", as in "the programmer messed up"
-- test continuously and thoroughly (code, docs, speed, memory, release tests)
-- less is more
 
 * to do
-** errors
+** packaging, installability
-*** account name eliding and layout varies between commands and from ledger
+*** easier installation
-*** vty: hledger ui dies showing non-ascii chars in commodity symbol
+**** on all platforms
-*** vty: hledger ui shows junk in gnome terminal
+***** binary build/publish process
-** testing
+***** reduce dependencies
-*** test for robust ledger file parsing
+***** split packages ?
-**** test all ledger file format features
+**** on linux
-**** clarify hledgerisms in file format - that hledger can read but ledger can't
+***** keep up with debian/ubuntu haskell packagers
-**** run ledger 3 baseline tests
+**** on mac
-*** --compare (xml?) output with ledger's ?
+***** easy data entry, then
-*** build with -Wall and anything else useful
+***** easy installer
-*** build with multiple ghc versions
+***** easy startup
-*** cabal test
+**** on windows
-*** release tests
+***** easy data entry, then
-**** cabal install with:
+***** easy installer
-***** ghc 6.8
+***** easy startup
-***** ghc 6.10.x
+** documentation, marketing
-***** windows
+*** add missing
-***** linux
+**** hledger/ledger feature matrix
-***** macos
+**** regular-user home page
-***** no flags
+*** reduce
-***** happs flag
+*** better screenshots/images
-***** vty flag
-** docs/marketing/packaging
-*** streamline - less is more
 *** automate
 **** keep blurbs in sync
 ***** README file
@@ -52,13 +52,74 @@ We aim to make reliable, maintainable, usable software, sustainably.
 ***** gmane description
 ***** darcsweb description
 **** keep Options.hs and README option list in sync
-**** discover commands for --help
+**** discovering commands for --help
-**** accouncements
+**** announcements
-*** document smart dates, period expressions, display expressions
+*** liveness
+**** show feeds on site ?
+***** commits (darcsweb)
+**** weekly repo activity summary on list
+**** available feeds
+*** screencasts
+**** intro
+***** intro to hledger
+****** place in the world
+****** basic installation
+****** quick demo
+****** where to go from here
+***** installing hledger on windows
+***** installing hledger on mac
+***** installing hledger on unix
+***** accessing hledger's support forums
+****** website
+****** mail list
+****** irc channel
+***** reporting a hledger bug
+**** using
+***** income/expense tracking
+***** time tracking
+***** downloading bank data
+***** reconciling with bank statement
+***** see time reports by day/week/month/project
+***** get accurate numbers for client billing and tax returns
+***** find unpaid invoices
+**** developing
+***** intro to hledger development
+***** testing hleder
+***** documenting hledger
+***** a hledger coding example
+***** a tour of hledger's code
+**** ledger cooperation
+*** developer docs
+**** internal api docs
+**** external api docs
+**** DEVGUIDE
+***** How to do anything that needs doing in the hledger project.
+****** website & documentation
+******* overview of hledger docs
+******* how the site is built
+******* convenience urls
+list.hledger.org - mail list
+bugs.hledger.org - issue tracker
+bugs.hledger.org/1 - go to specific issue
+bugs.hledger.org/new - create a new issue
+hledger.org/{list,bugs}/* also works
+
+****** issue tracking
+****** testing
+****** coding
+****** funding process
+***** reference
+****** unsafe things which may fail at runtime
+******* incomplete pattern matching
+******* error
+******* printf
+**** project notes
+*** presenting/live demos
 *** develop funding process
 **** license change ?
 **** donate button, see chimoo guy
 **** funding document 2009/01
+***** text
 =======
 funding
 =======
@@ -251,77 +312,64 @@ competitors/fellow niche inhabitants
      * ...
 
 ***** responses
-***** albino
+****** albino
-      have you considered talking to business who hate their financial sw and going from there
+       have you considered talking to business who hate their financial sw and going from there
-***** gwern
+****** gwern
-      most haskellers have never heard of hledger, sounds arrogant or hubristic to talk of charging for it
+       most haskellers have never heard of hledger, sounds arrogant or hubristic to talk of charging for it
 
-**** qooxledger
+**** home edition
-*** better screenshots
+** testing
-*** screencasts
+*** documentation
-*** developer docs
+**** site up, current
-**** style guide
+**** demo up, current
-***** see above
+**** haddock
-**** unsafe things which may fail at runtime
+**** doctests
-***** incomplete pattern matching
+*** unit
-***** error
+**** hunit
-***** printf
+**** quickcheck
-*** cabal haddock
+**** easier unit test development
-*** liveness
+*** functional
-**** show feeds on site ?
+**** ledger file parsing tests
-***** commits (darcsweb)
+***** test all ledger file format features
-**** weekly repo activity summary on list
+***** clarify hledgerisms in file format - that hledger can read but ledger can't
-**** available feeds
+**** ledger 3 baseline tests
-*** make installation easier
+**** auto-compare xml output with ledger's ?
-**** on all platforms
+**** allow multiple tests in .test ?
-***** set up binary publishing
+*** performance
-***** reduce dependencies
+**** speed, benchmark tests
-***** split packages ?
+**** memory usage
-**** on linux
+*** build & packaging
-***** debian
+**** use -Wall and anything else useful
-***** ubuntu
+**** build with multiple ghc versions
-**** on mac
+**** cabal test
-***** ports
+**** hackage upload
-***** binary
+**** cabal install with:
-**** on windows
+***** ghc 6.8
-***** binary
+***** ghc 6.10.x
-**** cabal packages after installing ghc 6.10.3, HP, hledger 0.5.1
+***** windows
-/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.10.3/./package.conf:
+***** linux
-    Cabal-1.6.0.3, GLUT-2.1.1.2, HTTP-4000.0.6, HUnit-1.2.0.3,
+***** macos
-    OpenGL-2.2.1.1, QuickCheck-1.2.0.0, array-0.2.0.0, base-3.0.3.1,
+***** no flags
-    base-4.1.0.0, bytestring-0.9.1.4, cgi-3001.1.7.1,
+***** happs flag
-    containers-0.2.0.1, directory-1.0.0.3, (dph-base-0.3),
+***** vty flag
-    (dph-par-0.3), (dph-prim-interface-0.3), (dph-prim-par-0.3),
+*** field
-    (dph-prim-seq-0.3), (dph-seq-0.3), editline-0.2.1.0,
+**** talkback, auto bug reports
-    extensible-exceptions-0.1.1.0, fgl-5.4.2.2, filepath-1.1.0.2,
+**** usability
-    (ghc-6.10.3), ghc-prim-0.1.0.0, haddock-2.4.2,
+**** download & usage stats
-    haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1, haskell-src-1.0.1.3,
+** errors
-    haskell98-1.0.1.0, hpc-0.5.0.3, html-1.0.1.2, integer-0.1.0.1,
+*** allow comment lines immediately after postings
-    mtl-1.1.0.2, network-2.2.1, network-2.2.1.1, old-locale-1.0.0.1,
+*** accept all real-world ledger files
-    old-time-1.0.0.2, packedstring-0.1.0.1, parallel-1.1.0.1,
+*** account name eliding and layout varies between commands
-    parsec-2.1.0.1, pretty-1.0.1.0, process-1.0.1.1, random-1.0.0.1,
+*** vty issues 3, 4
-    regex-base-0.72.0.2, regex-compat-0.71.0.1, regex-posix-0.72.0.3,
+**** support upcoming vty development
-    rts-1.0, stm-2.1.1.2, syb-0.1.0.1, template-haskell-2.3.0.1,
+*** happstack ipv6 issue 6
-    time-1.1.2.4, time-1.1.3, unix-2.3.2.0, xhtml-3000.2.0.1,
+** refactoring, code cleanup
-    zlib-0.5.0.0
+*** switch to hack, support other backends
-/home/simon/.ghc/i386-linux-6.10.3/package.conf:
+*** pair programming
-    csv-0.1.1, hledger-0.5.1, mtlparse-0.0.1, regex-base-0.93.1,
-    regex-compat-0.71.0.1, regex-pcre-0.94.1, regex-posix-0.72.0.3,
-    regexpr-0.5.1, split-0.1.1, testpack-1.0.2, utf8-string-0.3.4
-**** packages after hledger -fhapps -fvty
-
-*** issues with pandoc's rst support
-**** treats HOME's h2s as h1
-**** quotes only first line of a :: literal block
-**** doesn't support http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#indirect-hyperlink-targets
-** code cleanup
-*** resources
-http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/downloads/paper-hoogle_overview-19_nov_2008.pdf -> Design Guidelines
 *** seek more modularity
 *** try export lists
 *** graph and reduce dependencies
-*** pair programming
+*** clarify levels of abstraction
-*** levels of abstraction
 **** balance sheet view - data model, view layout
 **** hledger web framework - define routes, handlers/views/actions/controllers/presenters, skins/styles..
 **** happstack - ? happstack api..
@@ -333,27 +381,31 @@ http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/downloads/paper-hoogle_overview-19_nov_2008.pd
 **** ghc - ghc 6.8, 6.10..
 **** haskell 98
 **** unix/windows/mac platform
-** features/wishlist
+*** inspiration
-*** actual & effective txn & posting dates
+http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/downloads/paper-hoogle_overview-19_nov_2008.pdf -> Design Guidelines
+** features
+*** easy data entry
+*** assume current year as default
+*** wide/customisable/consistent layout
+*** simple --flat balance report format
+*** better web ui/gui support
+*** effective dates for postings
+*** ledger-compatible xml output ?
 *** allow no command or unordered command with pattern args
-*** --flat timelog balance report option for clients
-*** alternative easy timelog format
-*** better web gui
 *** nice reports with charts
-*** data entry!
+*** more automated bank data conversion
+*** ofx download
+*** easy timelog format
 *** watching a changing ledger
-*** wide format
 *** more date syntax ? last nov, next friday, optional this, week of
 *** more period syntax ? every N days, biweekly
-*** allow comment lines immediately after or within an entry
 *** accept multiple -f files
 *** more reliable tidy layout from print
 *** parse more file formats - gnucash, qif, ofx, csv..
 *** i18n
 *** speed
-**** optimisation
+*** clear interfaces/surfaces/plugin architecture
-**** speed regression tests
+
-*** plugins
 * misc
 ** things I want to know
 *** time
@@ -412,3 +464,7 @@ nmatrace a = trace (show as) a where (Mixed as) = normaliseMixedAmount a
 ** financial software
 *** http://weberp.org
 **** http://www.weberp.org/weberp/doc/Manual/ManualContents.php
+** issues with pandoc's rst support
+*** treats HOME's h2s as h1
+*** quotes only first line of a :: literal block
+*** doesn't support http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#indirect-hyperlink-targets