Monday, October 15, 2018

Working on Lino Tera. There were some ledger.Movement without valid voucher in their database. These were created by incomplete tl3.py imports.

Also I saw that the lino_xl.lib.accounting.Journal.dc of their journals still needed to be inverted. (EDIT: later 20181016 this turned out as wrong. The dc were good, but Lino had a bug: an income in a bank statement line debits the named account (and an expense credits it).

Maybe I could simply write an admin command which rebuilds all movements? Ha! It exists already: reregister. But I had to add a feature: when no arguments are specified (which means re-register them all), then reregister now starts by deleting all lino_xl.lib.accounting.Movement objects. That’s more time-efficient and –the key point here– also removes moevements with an invalid

Illiterate developers

When talking with deciders about Lino, I sometimes perceive a problem of language difference. Tonight Thomas helped me to understand the (probable) reason: I don’t use pictures. When things become more complex, you simply don’t get an overview without a diagram. Yes, it’s one of my handicaps: among project managers I am a kind of illiterate as long as I don’t master the art of drawing diagrams.

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2017/02/22/diagrams-as-documentation/