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# Roadmap / Wishlist
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Ideas about where the hledger project should be going next, as of 2019q4.
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Discussion welcome.
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## Targets
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Dated targets we are aiming for:
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- **hledger 1.16** - 2019-12-01
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- ghc 8.8 support
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- more powerful CSV conversion
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- updated home page, faq, manuals
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- reduce install hassles with terminfo C lib
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## Priorities
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Current priorities for the project, grouped under four overarching themes:
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<table>
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<tr valign="top">
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<td>
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### Documentation
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Improving the docs.
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<br>
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- home & faq
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- manuals (more discoverability on web)
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- contrib guide (include readmes, update)
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- cookbook docs (survey, plan, update)
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</td>
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### "Effectiveness"
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Improving approachability, just-works quality, practicality, real-world usefulness.
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- ghc 8.8, stackage nightly
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- install issues (C libs..)
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- more powerful CSV conversion
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- fill out holes in feature matrix
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</td>
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<tr valign="top">
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### Charts
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Adding charts and more visual appeal.
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- console charts, basic bar charts
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- clarify architecture/UI for charts
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- graphical charts using Chart and/or Vega
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- review/design/add more attractive default output (see taskwarrior)
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</td>
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### Investment
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Improving suitability for investment tracking.
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[#1015](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1015)
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- easy price fetching
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- lots
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- capital gains
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- ?
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</tr>
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</table>
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## Wishlist
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A few high-level maintainer wishes, by topic.
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Discussing/moving any of these forward is a big help.
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### Docs
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- build the contributor/dev guide from CONTRIBUTING.md plus the READMEs; clean up
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- move general PTA docs to plaintextaccounting.org
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- simplify manuals' TOC/structure on the website
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### Tests
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- migrate to tasty, unblock ghc 8.8 support
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- survey/document current testing setup (process, coverage, redundancy..); identify weaknesses; design a policy for tests; make a plan for achieving that
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- start adding property tests/other new kinds of testing if appropriate
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## Milestones
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Some project achievements to unlock, for fun:
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- <s>**1.0 release**</s>
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- <s>**packaged in major distros, binaries available**</s>
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- <s>**pretty good reference docs**</s>
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- <s>100 committers</s>
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- <s>1k github stars</s>
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- <s>among top 50 haskell projects by github stars</s>
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- <s>discussed on Hacker News</s>
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- match ledger IRC channel
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- multiple people providing support
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- **pretty good tutorial docs**
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- **mentioned in "what good Haskell software exists" discussions**
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- **pretty good cookbook docs**
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- 100 IRC chatters
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- 2k github stars
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- among top 40 haskell projects by github stars
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- **match ledger speed**
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- match ledger committers
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- 200 committers
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- 2.0 release
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- match ledger stars
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- match beancount mail list
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- match ledger mail list
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