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LedgerSMB community overview 2019
by Erik Huelsmann 28 Dec '19

28 Dec '19

Hi, As the year-end approaches, it's time to provide an overview of what our community has achieved over the past year. At the beginning of the year, in last year's overview, the hope was expressed that the MC branch would be merged this year and that the 1.7 release cycle would turn out shorter again than the previous ones. == Community interest == The hits on our web site show a stable line month-on-month, although lower than last year. Consensus has it that traditional websites get lower numbers of hits than several years ago because of mobile and other (social) media. Hits seem to be pretty stable now. During the year, we've seen the number of Watchers, Stars and Forks on GitHub slowly but steadily increase. Traffic seems to be slightly up on our mailing lists, the users mailing list especially, with questions from new users installing and configuring LedgerSMB. The number of active developers is a bit lower, than last year; some hang around in our chat channel to help evaluate changes submitted by active members, though. All in all, the community seems to be on-boarding potential and new users and experiencing its regular in- and outflux of developers. == Releases == Last year we hoped to release 1.7 in the first half of the year. With the release of 1.6.0 on June 10 2018, we hoped to be able to start doing yearly releases. We also expressed the hope to land the MC branch on master. We ended up releasing 1.7 on October 4 2019, a little less than 16 months after 1.6.0. We did reduce the release cycle, but not by as much as we'd hoped. In part, the longer-than-hoped-for release cycle was caused by the fact that the MC branch did land on master, which warranted additional test effort, especially of the database migration scripts against real-world data. All in all we released around the same number of times as we did in 2018: * 10 stable releases: 1.7.0 - 1.7.6 & 1.6.10 - 1.6.12 * 11 old-stable releases: 1.6.13 - 1.6.17 & 1.5.25 -1.5.30 == Packaging and installation == In preparation for the 1.7 release, some work was done on the Docker images to run on Debian Buster. However, we found that Buster deprecated the ssmtp package which we depended on and it was too late in our own release cycle to do any fundamental changes to our e-mail functionality. We ended up going back to Stretch to run 1.7 on. Further work will be required to make sure 1.8 offers similar functionality without depending on ssmtp. The Debian ledgersmb package for 1.6 transitioned to Buster. Which is great as Debian Stable now has a non-deprecated version in its package repository. Last week we found that the package unfortunately misses a few files. We hope to fix that really soon. == Development progress == Over the course of 2019, 40 issues were created, 19 of which remain open at this point. All 19 issues were created by the development team, many in the process of doing code reviews or development work. A total of 73 issues were closed in 2019, including issues created in prior years. From these numbers, we can see that now that the MC branch has been merged, there's time or room to work on issues not directly related to MC or the creation of infrastructure to support MC development. The development work spun off 304 pull requests on the LedgerSMB repository. The number of pull requests is a lot lower than in 2018 when the number was around 480. The 304 PRs triggered nearly 1000 builds on Travis CI. During the first half of the year, we developed large numbers of new tests, push coverage up from 34% in last year's report to 41% now. Although 41% still is by far not enough, we started to run into the limits of what Travis CI was able to provide us (which is: maximum of 50 minutes of run-time on each test job). We evaluated a number of other CI providers, including the option to run our own. We ended up going for CircleCI; to their service we moved our longest running test job (we left the others at TravisCI), because they account the total time to be spent by a project differently. Areas that we're currently spending time on, include: * Selection of a new translation engine which supports more than 2 plural forms * Building on last year's separation between printed-document templates and UI templates, moving more printed documents into the framework * Gradual polishing of 1.7 through regular fixes of issues left to be polished after 1.7.0 release * Polishing of the technical implementation and user experience of payments and receipts The 334 issues that are open today summarize into these statistics: * 71 are marked bite-sized; this means they should be good places to start for new-comers * 188 are marked as desirable enhancements * 43 are marked as being in our queue of design work (Note that an issue may fall into more than one category.) == New functionality and improvements == A long-standing desire was to remove code duplication in templates to generate output tables. This year, we managed to move all code using the old report table infrastructure to the new code base. While doing so, we also cleaned up fixed assets code. Another topic that we spent time on, is research on how other PostgreSQL based projects structure their authentication. One project that drew our attention was Graphile (https://www.graphile.org/) From their approach, we've come up with an approach that may help us simplify setting up the database connections and managing / reporting password expiry on login. == Looking forward to 2020 == In 2020, we'll likely release 1.8 in the second half of the year. I personally hope that we can shorten the release cycle to get to yearly releases around the middle of the year. With that schedule it'll leave a number of patch releases until the end of the year, allowing users to migrate to a stable release after closing their books at the end of the year (if they didn't migrate earlier already). For 2020, I'm also hoping that the idea to work concentrate on specific topics, moving from topic to topic to improve the software, leads to an attractive 1.8 release. The various topics have been grouped into GitHub "projects" (https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/projects) Topics that have my personal priority are "Payment/payment_link support for all parts of the code base" and "Polish cash and payments". The first is rather technical in nature and a prerequisite to address the issues collected into the second. For 2020, I'm hoping to complete at least one, but hopefully both projects. For 2020, I'm hoping for 1 or 2 new contributors (not necessarily developers; translators, testers, documenters or UI artists are all greatly appreciated!). If you want to contribute, but don't know where to start, please contact me. Leaves me only to wish everybody in our community - and their loved ones - a very good, healthy and prosperous 2020! -- Bye, Erik. http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.

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LedgerSMB 1.7.6 released
by Erik Huelsmann 26 Dec '19

26 Dec '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. Please note that this release fixes an important translation bug that was introduced in 1.7.0, where only the menu was translated, instead of the entire UI. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.7.6 * Disallow rate entry for the default currency (#4236) * Fix formatting on-hand (OH) column on orders to follow user settings (#3334) * Fix UI translation other than the menu, regressed from 1.6 (#4293) * Fix missing 'Entered At' date in contact notes (#2822) * Fix removal of lines from orders and vendor invoices on entry (#3703) For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.7.6/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.7.6 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.7.6 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.7.6 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: 9faa2df90c9d91610b754ec2d716e222c81f88b3dec11bff63625b7a50f2fc3f ledgersmb-1.7.6.tar.gz 4866c96a3d2e293b2585e8a5b1d30efe4ec8d579b36b9a4f5428d7f24d80793a ledgersmb-1.7.6.tar.gz.asc

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LedgerSMB 1.6.17 released
by Erik Huelsmann 26 Dec '19

26 Dec '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.6.17 * Allow uploading of attachments with unknown mime-types (Erik H) * Fix formatting on-hand (OH) column on orders to follow user settings (Erik H) * Fix migration of assembly data from SQL Ledger 3.2 (Yves L) Erik H is Erik Huelsmann Yves L is Yves Lavoie For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.6.17/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.6.17 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.6.17 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.6.17 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: 162c1acf684a2a207ddc2042e28e2db29793855d6e8f2755ba42247b97ebeb5f ledgersmb-1.6.17.tar.gz fa5ed1d5dbf5956924086daa0c40a897caa34fa9dcbb0c496972b88824433197 ledgersmb-1.6.17.tar.gz.asc

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PGObject and PGObject::Simple
by Chris Bennett 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

Hi, apart from these, I've started quite a few other modules too. One problem I'm seeing is that, using OpenBSD's PostgreSQL testing module (which I'm only just now getting aquainted with) is that I'm having to patch the tests for get past the skip_all. They pass the tests just fine, except that they both try to drop the test database while it's still open. I'll ask about this on the OpenBSD mailling list. I may be doing something wrong. I want to be sure and test everything with the database. Kind of important. :-} Is there a kink in the test programs or am I just doing something wrong? I can just patch things on the OpenBSD side, which is pretty commonly needed. That's not a problem. I'll get back. Been working on things in spurts. Many modules started. Now I'm working on finishing up on them one by one. Regards, Chris Bennett

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1.5 release line End-Of-Life notice
by Erik Huelsmann 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

I'm sending notice that the 1.5 release line will reach End-Of-Life by Monday 23 December - next week. As per our community policy, there will be no further fixes applied to the 1.5 series of releases. After its initial release on December 23, 2016 and 30 patch releases - the latest released just 16 days ago on November 29 - the 1.5 release line will have received 3 years of support. Note that even though the community won't provide further releases, the software is considered highly stable and will keep working as it has. This End-Of-Life announcement has no impact on migration paths to newer versions of LedgerSMB: upgrades from 1.5 to more recent versions will remain supported for years to come. (While I'm writing this, I find that we don't currently have a policy in place governing this type of backward compatibility.) Should you want to keep running 1.5 and be in need of support or maintenance, you could try contacting one of the parties listed on the page for commercial support: https://ledgersmb.org/content/commercial-support. They may be able to provide support beyond the community commitment. Available options for versions with community support are the 1.6 release line which will receive community releases until June 10, 2021 or the 1.7 release line which will see community support until October 04, 2022. -- Bye, Erik. http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.

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Initializing report templates in existing companies
by Erik Huelsmann 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

Hi, Yesterday, I created infrastructure to customize and run Balance sheet, P&L, trial balance and "generic list" reports (in their downloadable versions) on a per-company basis. To support this use-case, they will need to be uploaded to the database, just like the invoice, order and other templates. For our code base, it's an either/or situation that we support the in-database templates (or remain with the ones on-disk). Personally, I see benefits in moving to the in-database templates, mostly because they then become customizable by end users with sufficient rights, not just system admins. Now, I'm looking for a suitable way to make the switch for everybody who already has a pre-1.8 system running when we release this functionality with 1.8. I see several options to get templates into their databases: 1. Create an SQL database upgrade script with the templates embedded This has the benefit that the templates will be there after the database is upgraded. However, when the templates change over time, the script can't be updated to include the updated templates, because that's the way our SQL schema change management works. 2. Do nothing, but fail with an error about the import needing to happen when the templates are missing upon output generation This is probably the easiest way to go by, but the error might end up with users who won't be able to address the issue themselves. 3. Create new infrastructure to test "company configuration sanity" which can be run from setup.pl at the end of the migration This solution is a lot of additional work, but can be used to indicate configuration and database health issues to admins after upgrades. One such issue would be that the templates are missing. This functionality can be used independently from upgrades as well and would address the issue that we have wanted to land database integrity/sanity checks (but didn't have anywhere to do so). Comments? Other ideas? Regards, -- Bye, Erik. http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.

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Selecting a next bug to work on
by Erik Huelsmann 14 Dec '19

14 Dec '19

Hi, As promised on my GitHub Sponsors account ( https://github.com/sponsors/ehuelsmann) I've drawn up a selection of bugs that I'm ready to take on. The community will be offered an opportunity to help select the bug that adds most value when being solved. Today, I'm sending out my first mail with a list of bugs I think I can take on and solve in the upcoming weeks: * Rate entry allowed for default currency Currently, when entering a rate in 1.7, the user needs to choose the currency for which this rate is being entered. Unfortunately, the default currency is included in that list. https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues/4236 * Barcode scanning on invoices/orders broken by parts drop-down Before 1.5, hitting enter in the part number field would update the invoice screen and advance the entry to the next line (for a next scan). Currently, all this is broken. https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues/1584 * New <invoice|order|...> buttons on Credit Account screen should populate customer Currently, these buttons don't populate the customer, instead returning the user an empty screen. https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues/932 Please provide your feedback as to which of these bugs adds the most value to you by Tue 17 Dec. Please note that sponsors get an actual vote; all others provide advisory feedback. If your most-wanted bug isn't in this list, please mail me directly about that and I'll check to see if I can add it to the list on its next iteration. Before you mail me, please make sure your bug is registered as a bug on GitHub (https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues) -- Bye, Erik. http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.

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Selecting a next bug to work on
by Erik Huelsmann 14 Dec '19

14 Dec '19

Hi, As promised on my GitHub Sponsors account ( https://github.com/sponsors/ehuelsmann) I've drawn up a selection of bugs that I'm ready to take on. The community will be offered an opportunity to help select the bug that adds most value when being solved. Today, I'm sending out my first mail with a list of bugs I think I can take on and solve in the upcoming weeks: * Remove restriction on file types that can be uploaded Currently, only files with a MIME type already known to LedgerSMB can be uploaded With this issue fixed, files of all MIME types will be accepted https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues/1949 * Make contact type names translatable Currently, the names of contact types (Vendor, ...) are presented straight from the database without ways to translate them. https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues/2315 * 'setup.pl' shows system databases in the list of company databases Currently, when logging into 'setup.pl' without a named database, a list of databases is shown. This list includes databases not available for logging in, such as postgres, template0 and template1. Resolving this bug will remove these common databases from this list. * The "Internal notes" field on the invoice isn't scrollable https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues/3203 * Contact Notes has empty Author and Entered At fields https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues/2822 Please provide your feedback as to which of these bugs adds the most value to you by Tue 2 Dec. Please note that sponsors get an actual vote; all others provide advisory feedback. If you most-wanted bug isn't in this list, please mail me directly about that and I'll check to see if I can add it to the list on its next iteration. Before you mail me, please make sure your bug is registered as a bug on GitHub (https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues) -- Thanks! Erik. http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.

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LedgerSMB 1.7.5 released
by Erik Huelsmann 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.7.5 * Fix failure to save tax forms (#4252) * Fix failure to undo database edits when surrounding code fails (#4253) * Allow uploads of files with MIME types unavailable in the database (#1949) * Fix failure to render (AR/AP) aging report (#4259, #4260) * Separate authentication domains for setup.pl and login.pl (#4247) For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.7.5/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.7.5 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.7.5 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.7.5 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: 443e8b12eea99361dcb4479c2c62e8d54d54716f3755193df0735c1082ebfb32 ledgersmb-1.7.5.tar.gz 539caf56f8f4f8e4252b3bae7ac0ec618b4f481222308a85b27e05caa7feef2d ledgersmb-1.7.5.tar.gz.asc

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Testing mailing list delivery
by John Locke 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

Please ignore... We've just moved the mailing lists to a new mail server, making sure it delivers and archives correctly... Cheers, John Locke Freelock (host for ledgersmb.org)

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LedgerSMB 1.7.4 released
by Erik Huelsmann 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.7.4 * Fix COGS failure when posting AP invoice reversal (#4218) * Include first transaction on account in reconciliation (#4221) * Fix error on reconciliation when no prior balance available (#4224) * Fix SQL write access error when posting fixed assets disposal (#4230) * Correctly calculate the tax basis amount even for 0% taxes ($4240) For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.7.4/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.7.4 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.7.4 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.7.4 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: 15a996fe9fd36ac28385ec975e1958727e70a398623015490b0dc5d1bd0dd31f ledgersmb-1.7.4.tar.gz cda0574435ea777be22922c48dfe8a4ac659ba923d7d9283ea32e3626aad3aed ledgersmb-1.7.4.tar.gz.asc

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LedgerSMB 1.6.16 released
by Erik Huelsmann 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.6.16 * Include first transsaction on account in reconciliation report (Erik H) * Fix COGS error when posting AP invoice reversal (Erik H) * Fix error in reconciliation in case no prior balance exists (Erik H) * Fix write access error thrown on fixed assets disposal (Erik H) * Correctly calculate tax basis amount even for 0% taxes (Erik H) Erik H is Erik Huelsmann For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.6.16/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.6.16 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.6.16 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.6.16 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: 72527c660cbd839df06b7abbf16d15f093077c98aa2e1d098ccb738b6d558d01 ledgersmb-1.6.16.tar.gz ba42bf5fef8733c4debf4a6d882e4cd92bdcf49685d408ce86e20f3f85f73aca ledgersmb-1.6.16.tar.gz.asc

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LedgerSMB 1.5.30 released
by Erik Huelsmann 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.5.30 * Include first transsaction on account in reconciliation report (Erik H) * Fix COGS error when posting AP invoice reversal (Erik H) * Fix error in reconciliation in case no prior balance exists (Erik H) * Fix write access error thrown on fixed assets disposal (Erik H) * Correctly calculate tax basis amount even for 0% taxes (Erik H) Erik H is Erik Huelsmann For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.5.30/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.5.30 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.5.30 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.5.30 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: a19e0947a3181509e3543cfca29ae81b5323665889675e599ceaf4a4386b6b75 ledgersmb-1.5.30.tar.gz a9dd176385498796fecbd90879b4902aa8971473475128a13b4ddaab7bc6b36b ledgersmb-1.5.30.tar.gz.asc

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LedgerSMB 1.7.3 released
by Erik Huelsmann 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.7.3 * Fix regression in fixed assets module due to Multi Currency support (#4195) * Fix 'constraint not deferrable' error in fixed assets disposal (#4195) * Stop posting manual tax lines with zero amount and zero base amount (#4196) * Fix incorrect currency setup error on 'Update' in part screen (#4198) * Fix occasional COGS error on invoice posting (#4200) * Fix occasional COGS error on invoice reversal posting (#4213) * Fix regression with missing download links on reports (#4206) For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.7.3/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.7.3 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.7.3 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.7.3 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: e007550265fd0ea3509b31bcd71950cb18664cc71cdf072df4b8b4f97a80f29f ledgersmb-1.7.3.tar.gz b55ad96a32ccbbfeee6b78eb0a06beb86706cadd3678b1d6066fc6921cccd9bc ledgersmb-1.7.3.tar.gz.asc

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LedgerSMB 1.6.15 released
by Erik Huelsmann 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.6.15 * Fix occasional COGS error on invoice posting (Erik H) * Fix occasional COGS error on invoice reversal posting (Erik H) * Fix failure on first reconciliation report for an account (Erik H) Erik H is Erik Huelsmann For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.6.15/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.6.15 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.6.15 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.6.15 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: 80613c18f2a80401a636c1ef21456333b4087c2b5a8f46d4978cecbd75d2a0ae ledgersmb-1.6.15.tar.gz 4e3c25d4ccb694d238413b60441396dd5c150c1c99c117c44e621ff51efd737c ledgersmb-1.6.15.tar.gz.asc

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LedgerSMB 1.5.29 released
by Erik Huelsmann 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.5.29 * Fix occasional COGS error on invoice posting (Erik H) * Fix occasional COGS error on invoice reversal posting (Erik H) * Fix failure on first reconciliation report for an account (Erik H) Erik H is Erik Huelsmann For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.5.29/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.5.29 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.5.29 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.5.29 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: ec8523647531361416db5fbc79b235d47f309bd532cff81c71540a36fa3414c4 ledgersmb-1.5.29.tar.gz 7c30f6f1e0520b1c3c897b4f0eebb266707db9d2ae8c8280a777754a91088565 ledgersmb-1.5.29.tar.gz.asc

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Fwd: Porting to OpenBSD again
by Erik Huelsmann 03 Nov '19

03 Nov '19

And Chris's answer. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Chris Bennett <chris(a)bennettconstruction.us> Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [ledgersmb-devel] Porting to OpenBSD again To: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels(a)gmail.com> On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 09:20:57PM +0100, Erik Huelsmann wrote: > If you want to be running linux from a usb stick, I think a distribution with a > Live version will help. (I'd suggest DebianLive, because we have regularly > updated Debian packages.) > Sounds good. > > I really don't expect you will need to change much on the project's source code > -- which would be a primary reason to create a branch. I *can* imagine though > that you'll need to store a lot of code/changes required to do the porting of > the Perl packages you listed in one of the tickets into OpenBSD. Because > development of packages is usually tangent on the development of the project > itself, we've created package repositories within the GitHub 'ledgersmb' > organisation: https://github.com/ledgersmb/ledgersmb-docker for the Docker > packages/images, https://github.com/ledgersmb/pkg-ledgersmb for the Debian > package and https://github.com/ledgersmb/lsmb-overlay for a Gentoo Overlay > (package). > > We could create another repository for the OpenBSD package(s), if that helps? > I am thinking that the most useful thing will turn out to be some installation details for different web servers. That could be a longish list since there are quite a few choices. Putting that into the final package would be pretty cumbersome. And too much work to keep it always up to date. The base httpd server in OpenBSD can be run in quite a few different ways. But that's for much later. You can close the issues on github. I did manage to miss the 1.7 instructions. Thanks, Chris Bennett -- Bye, Erik. http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.

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Fwd: Porting to OpenBSD again
by Erik Huelsmann 02 Nov '19

02 Nov '19

Forgot to send to the mailing list... ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [ledgersmb-devel] Porting to OpenBSD again To: Chris Bennett <chris(a)bennettconstruction.us> Hi Chris, On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 1:35 PM Chris Bennett <chris(a)bennettconstruction.us> wrote: > I was CPBen on github. > Yes here is better. > Thanks for taking this to the list. (And thanks for picking up the effort.) I am updating to latest -current right now. > If anyone wants to help, that would be great. > OpenBSD has become a breeze to update now. A flash stick or drive works > fine. Development has to be done on -current only. > > It seems that it might help me to be running a Linux version too. > Which one would be recommended as easy and workable on a flash stick? > I'm a total noob on Linux, now. > If you want to be running linux from a usb stick, I think a distribution with a Live version will help. (I'd suggest DebianLive, because we have regularly updated Debian packages.) > I posted two issues on github, one with the very minimum dependencies > that I have to add. Is anyone still using OpenOffice versus Libreoffice. > OpenOffice just isn't supported on OpenBSD for a long time. > Well, LedgerSMB I don't think things will make a big difference: it doesn't depend on either, but simply generates a document format which either will consume. > Docker is also not an option. No problem. Nothing requires Docker; it's just a very convenient way of producing a standardized distribution which works "always" (well, most of the time). > PostgreSQL 12+ will be the version coming out. > >From what I can tell, we were compatible with 9.x, 10 and 11; I'm expecting us to be compatible with 12. [snip] And thanks to Mr. Ransbottom for his $100 donation to me. That allowed > me to purchase an external hard drive which I really needed to get this > work done. > Very nice to hear that this effort comes from that sponsoring! > Is there any reason for me to work on any version before 1.7+ also? > I don't think so. We've seen very few regressions on 1.7 even though it's been a major change under the hood. Over the coming months some issues will be ironed out as they are found, but there's really little reason not to use it at all. > I and intended to work on a Mexican Spanish translation, but my passport > is expired and I need to get a Mexican accounting textbook. The > different Spanish speaking countries vary wildly in their accounting > methods, so my Spain dictionary on accounting might not be appropriate. > > I use git, but not in a group. Would opening an OpenBSD branch be a good > idea? > I really don't expect you will need to change much on the project's source code -- which would be a primary reason to create a branch. I *can* imagine though that you'll need to store a lot of code/changes required to do the porting of the Perl packages you listed in one of the tickets into OpenBSD. Because development of packages is usually tangent on the development of the project itself, we've created package repositories within the GitHub 'ledgersmb' organisation: https://github.com/ledgersmb/ledgersmb-docker for the Docker packages/images, https://github.com/ledgersmb/pkg-ledgersmb for the Debian package and https://github.com/ledgersmb/lsmb-overlay for a Gentoo Overlay (package). We could create another repository for the OpenBSD package(s), if that helps? > Glad to be back again, > Chris Bennett > > Nice to see activity on this front again! -- Bye, Erik. http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in. -- Bye, Erik. http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.

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LedgerSMB 1.7.2 released
by Erik Huelsmann 02 Nov '19

02 Nov '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.7.2 * Fix invoice screens crashing on manual tax with 0% tax rate (#4176) * Fix manual tax lines posted on current instead of transaction date (#4180) * Fix default currency invoice sometimes failing to save (#4184) * Fix SQL error in reversal of services in AP invoice (#4190) For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.7.2/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.7.2 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.7.2 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.7.2 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: af7da4dea056080d9171271f917e7f568529b1c2d7316e3fe15637045d2ee4e5 ledgersmb-1.7.2.tar.gz db923e2ba8deefee2b4750ebb42eb3727b01cf62ad3fa9f931932649c77bd872 ledgersmb-1.7.2.tar.gz.asc

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LedgerSMB 1.6.14 released
by Erik Huelsmann 02 Nov '19

02 Nov '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.6.14 * Fix invoice screens crashing on manual tax with 0% tax rate (Erik H) * Fix manual tax lines posted on current instead of transaction date (Erik H) * Fix SQL error in reversal of services in AP invoice (Erik H) Erik H is Erik Huelsmann For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.6.14/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.6.14 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.6.14 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.6.14 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: 6cbf98e32f5047185cd88f96d359e48d7fde350825bffb6bfa6bb8a843a8ec51 ledgersmb-1.6.14.tar.gz 957f9172014d5d2eb232fff9002e31114d8782bf99961221aacc027f73d09851 ledgersmb-1.6.14.tar.gz.asc

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LedgerSMB 1.5.28 released
by Erik Huelsmann 02 Nov '19

02 Nov '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.5.28 * Fix invoice screens crashing on manual tax with 0% tax rate (Erik H) * Fix manual tax lines posted on current instead of transaction date (Erik H) * Fix SQL error in reversal of services in AP invoice (Erik H) Erik H is Erik Huelsmann For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.5.28/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.5.28 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.5.28 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.5.28 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: a20b3609d4b22c669a4cf2b0ce2bd55bcdd2a52a54ae9c9cbbcf80bf9fb0ea75 ledgersmb-1.5.28.tar.gz 935d779ebb7913e0482d3169c2240afe3b7de768b328774151fcf763e27955ab ledgersmb-1.5.28.tar.gz.asc

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Porting to OpenBSD again
by Chris Bennett 02 Nov '19

02 Nov '19

I was CPBen on github. Yes here is better. I am updating to latest -current right now. If anyone wants to help, that would be great. OpenBSD has become a breeze to update now. A flash stick or drive works fine. Development has to be done on -current only. It seems that it might help me to be running a Linux version too. Which one would be recommended as easy and workable on a flash stick? I'm a total noob on Linux, now. I posted two issues on github, one with the very minimum dependencies that I have to add. Is anyone still using OpenOffice versus Libreoffice. OpenOffice just isn't supported on OpenBSD for a long time. Docker is also not an option. PostgreSQL 12+ will be the version coming out. We are leaving on the passenger train Amtrak back to Seattle today, so Internet access will be sparse since most of the trip is in the middle of nowhere. And thanks to Mr. Ransbottom for his $100 donation to me. That allowed me to purchase an external hard drive which I really needed to get this work done. Is there any reason for me to work on any version before 1.7+ also? I and intended to work on a Mexican Spanish translation, but my passport is expired and I need to get a Mexican accounting textbook. The different Spanish speaking countries vary wildly in their accounting methods, so my Spain dictionary on accounting might not be appropriate. I use git, but not in a group. Would opening an OpenBSD branch be a good idea? Glad to be back again, Chris Bennett

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LedgerSMB 1.7.1 released
by Erik Huelsmann 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.7.1 * Generate unique names for backups * Fix tax checkmarks in contact screen sometimes being selected after save * Fix tax accounts inclusion in posted AR/AP transactions * Fix SQL error when running trial balance report * Fix assets and expenses with incorrect signs in GIFI balance and PnL For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.7.1/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.7.1 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.7.1 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.7.1 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: b09ffd074ffc9c77f41ca06d8f5a94db23fa6723716c0e7278bd9eb1e3bbf9c5 ledgersmb-1.7.1.tar.gz 615fb3879d5156e6cd8c91ada1cec9c4b7ce78d52df1af4318793a2b68e3a72e ledgersmb-1.7.1.tar.gz.asc

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LedgerSMB 1.6.13 released
by Erik Huelsmann 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.6.13 * Generate unique names for backups (Erik H) * Fix incorrect tax checkmarks in contact screen after save (Erik H) * Fix tax accounts inclusion in posted AR/AP transactions (Erik H) Erik H is Erik Huelsmann For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.6.13/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.6.13 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.6.13 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.6.13 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: 681e6920d7a0c8c6d30f59b04d4ba4730d9c9f15d910e39b4e0b42adad6b6f43 ledgersmb-1.6.13.tar.gz f6c68a706d8198a2d1987338324b95ef62d0df382a617759859681122e777cf7 ledgersmb-1.6.13.tar.gz.asc

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LedgerSMB 1.5.27 released
by Erik Huelsmann 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new version of its open source ERP and accounting application. This release contains the following fixes and improvements: Changelog for 1.5.27 * Fix incorrect tax checkmarks in contact screen after save (Erik H) Erik H is Erik Huelsmann For installation instructions and system requirements, see https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.5.27/README.md The release can be downloaded from our download site at https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.5.27 The release can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.5.27 Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command $ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.5.27 These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files: 655309c5e88daba8a3a502ac9f1e2a362edba06a442cb48e27c57c160fe06131 ledgersmb-1.5.27.tar.gz ad7bb1ed56bef418f9066445bc0107238d9606e56ee1ccf67575f4d9a5d25ef2 ledgersmb-1.5.27.tar.gz.asc

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