I'm not a Gnucash user, but I recognize its importance. This just came
off comp.os.linux.announce, and I thought perhaps some of you might be
interested in lending a hand.
Paul
P.S. If you do join them, try to convince them to reduce some of their
dang dependency issues. ;-}
http://www.gnucash.org/en/state_of_the_gnucash_project.phtml
The GnuCash project is having a hard time. I think most everyone agrees
that GnuCash is a critical piece of software for the GNU/Linux desktop.
It's also one the largest free software projects. How big is it? GnuCash
currently has 287,853 physical source lines of code (SLOC). For example,
had the current GnuCash CVS been included in RedHat 7.1, it would come
in 21st position in code size (see http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/). At
that time, the current GnuCash CVS source would have been pretty similar
in size to qt, postgresql or perl, about 60% of Gimp and between 12% and
16% of Xfree, Mozilla or the Linux kernel. Although GnuCash comes up in
every discussion of needed software to get GNU/Linux on the desktop, the
GnuCash project currently has only about seven active developers (active
being used very loosely here, considering I included myself) and enjoys
far less exposure than many projects of a similar size.
We may be headed for a dead end if we don't reorganize and refocus our
efforts. GnuCash badly needs more manpower (not just developers), and
needs to get it quickly.
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