Conservancy runs only Free Software for its own operations

Posted Sep 10, 2012 21:33 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Conservancy runs only Free Software for its own operations by bkuhn
Parent article: LinuxCon: funding development

> Long-term, we want to have a web interface that will allow a bookkeeper without Unix CLI and Emacs experience to keep the books.

Have you tried hledger-web? A demo is available[1]. I uses ledger's data format (but doesn't support everything), but it might[2] be easier than starting from scratch.

[1]http://demo.hledger.org/register
[2]Depends on Haskell/Yesod familiarity.

Conservancy runs only Free Software for its own operations

Posted Sep 11, 2012 13:55 UTC (Tue) by bkuhn (subscriber, #58642) [Link] (2 responses)

hledgerweb really supports only a small fraction of what ledger can do, and the most important thing is an extra-ledger issue: it needs to use a repository system on the backend for it to be useful at all to Conservancy.

Conservancy runs only Free Software for its own operations

Posted Sep 11, 2012 18:40 UTC (Tue) by clint (subscriber, #7076) [Link] (1 responses)

There is a somewhat-low-priority project to add an optional filestore backend to hledger-lib (which would introduce support for Git, Darcs, and Mercurial). Presumably when ledger 4 is rewritten in Haskell, it could do the same thing.

Conservancy runs only Free Software for its own operations

Posted Sep 16, 2012 15:53 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I'd certainly be interested in a git-backed hledger. I store my files as:

main.journal # Include $year.journal
$year.journal # Set the year, include $year/$month.journal
$year/$month.journal # Sorted by effective date then by account

in git. Having hledger do auto-commit when things balance would be great since the commits tend to just have messages like "Receipts up to $date" and "Reconcile with $account up to $date" anyway.