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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
+  - hledger-install.sh installs terminfo lib
+  - updated home page, faq, manuals
+  - basic bar charts
+
+----
+
+## Priorities
+
+Current priorities for the project, grouped under four overarching themes:
+
+<table>
+<tr valign="top">
+<td>
+
+### Documentation
+
+Improving the docs.
+<br>
+<br>
+
+- home & faq
+- manuals (more discoverability on web)
+- contrib guide (include readmes, update)
+- cookbook docs (survey, plan, update)
+
+</td>
+<td>
+
+### "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
+
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr valign="top">
+<td>
+
+### Charts
+
+Adding charts and more visual appeal.
+<br>
+<br>
+
+- 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)
+
+</td>
+<td>
+
+### Investment
+
+Improving suitability for investment tracking.
+[#1015](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1015)
+
+- easy price fetching
+- lots
+- capital gains
+- ?
+
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+----
+
+## 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