Re: [GNC-dev] alpha-testing budgets in 5.x

> On Jan 4, 2022, at 8:40 AM, Christopher Lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Experienced Users,
> 
> The upcoming 5.x series (master branch) currently has a one-time fix for
> budgets to ensure they're internally stored as unreversed numbers.
> Currently (up to 4.x) budgeting $1000 income into $600 expense and $400
> liability repayment are stored as +1000, +600, +400. They should be stored
> internally as -1000, +600, +400 amounts, as per usual accounting equation.
> The internal numbers assume the reversal pref is "Credit Accounts". This
> means the budgets are currently functioning well *only* if reversal
> preference is set to credit-accounts
> 
> A obligatory one-time fix is suggested and applied on the master branch,
> applying some heuristics and negating the numbers, and will render the
> datafile unreadable on GnuCash prior to 3.7. It is *not* an option to make
> the one-time fix optional, because this will mean maintaining two code
> paths in perpetuity. However I'm not sure if it is debugged enough.
> 
> I'd like to ask experienced users to test from the master branch, either as
> win32 nightlies https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/master/ (4-jan-2022
> onwards) or building on linux, and report back of the new budget is *less*
> buggy than in 4.x maint series. Please do NOT test master on your
> production datafile.
> 
> If there are unsolvable bugs, then I'll suggest that the one-time fix
> change must be undone, and someone else may decide to try again.

Linux users can also get a flatpak nightly from https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/master <https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/master>.

Regards,
John Ralls