# ROADMAP

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Ideas of where the hledger project should be going next.
Being listed here suggests a bit of commitment, perhaps even a schedule.
Related:
<http://projects.hledger.org>,
[TODO](TODO.md).

## 2023

**Targets:**
- hledger 1.32, december
- hledger 1.31, september
- hledger 1.30, june
  - demos: built in asciinema demos and maintenance process
  - ghc 9.6 support
  - process/tools improvement
  - docs improvement
- hledger 1.29, march

**Goals:**
  - CSV extensibility: workflows to obtain, use, develop, share, contribute ready-to-use CSV rules
  - Scripts extensibility: workflows to obtain, use, develop, share, contribute ready-to-use scripts
  - Interop: clear ledger & beancount import/export how-tos documenting issues & workarounds
  - Better installer: more robust, binary-installing
  - Bar charts: simple built in bar charts
  - Investment: clear updated how-to documenting available tools & best practices for common needs (price fetching, lot reducing, lot reporting, cost reporting, gains reporting)

**Priorities:**
- newcomer/learner experience: docs, installers, demos
- customiser/contributor experience: easy csv rules install/contrib, scripts install/contrib
- maintainer experience: reduce tech/doc/process/issue debt, increase velocity
- marketing/community: news updates, mastodon presence
- interop: solve Ledger/Beancount reading/writing/conversion
- features: charts, investment

**Mission:**
- Make plain text accounting more usable and useful for all
- Bring relief to people experiencing financial and technological stress
- Help people and communities in all countries increase their financial mastery and freedom
- Help grow a shared global culture of accountability and sustainability
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## 2020

**Targets:**

- hledger 1.19, september
  - account transactions register, stricter/more correct handling of
    unbalanced multicommodity transactions (#1177), Track & show
    deposited lots (#1022), Report unrealized capital gains/losses
    (#1029)

- hledger 1.18, june
  - more effective CI setup, updated home page, quickstart, tutorials
    etc., negative matching in CSV rules,

- hledger 1.17, march
  - field matching in CSV rules, reduce install hassles with terminfo C
    lib (?), more import/export options, simple console charts,
    refreshed home page, faq, tutorials, manuals,

**Priorities:**
- Documentation: Improve the docs.
- Effectiveness: Improve getting-started experience, just-works quality, practicality,
real-world usefulness.
- Investment: Improve suitability for investment tracking
([#1015](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1015))
- Charts: Add charts and more visual appeal.
- Correctness: More support for enforcing correctness & accounting rules.

## 2019
**Targets:**
- hledger 1.16, december
  - ghc 8.8 support, more powerful CSV conversion, updated home page,
    faq, manuals, reduce install hassles with terminfo C lib