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