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Ideas about where the hledger project should be going next.
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>
Related:
<http://projects.hledger.org>,
[TODO](TODO.md).
## Targets
## 2023
### Next Targets
**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
### Past Targets
**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)
1. hledger 1.19, 2020-09-01
**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
account transactions register, stricter/more correct handling of
unbalanced multicommodity transactions (#1177), Track & show
deposited lots (#1022), Report unrealized capital gains/losses
(#1029)
**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
<!-- see also: sponsor.md, faq.md -->
2. hledger 1.18, 2020-06-01
## 2020
more effective CI setup, updated home page, quickstart, tutorials
etc., negative matching in CSV rules,
**Targets:**
3. hledger 1.17, 2020-03-01
- 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)
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,
- hledger 1.18, june
- more effective CI setup, updated home page, quickstart, tutorials
- etc., negative matching in CSV rules,
4. hledger 1.16, 2019-12-01
- 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,
ghc 8.8 support, more powerful CSV conversion, updated home page,
faq, manuals, reduce install hassles with terminfo C lib
## 2020 Priorities
### Documentation
Improve the docs.
- home & faq
- manuals (more discoverable structure of web manuals)
- cookbook docs (survey, plan, update)
- contrib guide (update, build from readmes)
### Effectiveness
Improve getting-started experience, just-works quality, practicality,
**Priorities:**
- Documentation: Improve the docs.
- Effectiveness: Improve getting-started experience, just-works quality, practicality,
real-world usefulness.
- ghc 8.8, get back in stackage nightly
- install issues (C libs..)
- more powerful CSV conversion
- fill out holes in feature matrix
### Investment
Improve suitability for investment tracking
- 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.
- market price inference from transactions
- easy market price fetching
- lot tracking
- capital gains reporting
### Charts
Add charts and more visual appeal.
- console charts, basic bar charts
- clarify architecture/UI for charts
- graphical charts using Chart/matplotlib/hvega
- review/design/add more attractive/colourful output (see eg
taskwarrior)
### Correctness
More support for enforcing correctness & accounting rules.
- account names
- commodity symbols
- payees
- notes/descriptions ?
- account lifetimes ?
- account balance conditions ?
- transaction templates ?
## 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