From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Jones Subject: Re: [ANN] Org Invoice 1.0.0 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:14:48 -0700 Message-ID: <86r64eaglz.fsf@pmade.com> References: <86zljmjrih.fsf@pmade.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LAnFy-0004Jx-PO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:15:14 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LAnFx-0004Ie-75 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:15:14 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60970 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LAnFx-0004IY-1G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:15:13 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48378 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LAnFw-0007bs-Kx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:15:12 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LAnFo-0000U7-3c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:15:04 +0000 Received: from c-67-173-227-188.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.173.227.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:15:04 +0000 Received: from mlists by c-67-173-227-188.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:15:04 +0000 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Ulf Stegemann writes: > If you plan to expand your package I'd have suggestions for it: > Currently, times are always given as hours and rates as hourly rates. > This is fine for a collection of smaller tasks. For projects it's much > more common to use person days, -weeks or -months. So it would be nice > if one could choose between these calculation schemes (or if the best > scheme would be chosen automatically). NB that it's quite common that a > person day is not hourly rate times eight, so different rates would be > necessary, too. And while we are at it, a column that indicates the rate > used would be fine. > > Another nice feature would be to have invoice items with a fixed price, > i.e. where the price is not calculated based on work or clock time. > Imagine e.g. hardware sold along with IT services or things like that. > > Those things are rather ideas than feature requests but nevertheless, I > thought I'll let you know as I think org-invoice has quite a good > potential, e.g. I can imagine that it's not only handy for actual > invoices but also for project planning, cost estimates, bids and all > other things where a cost component is involved. Great ideas Ulf, thanks. I've started a TODO file for org-invoice (using Org of course). I'll probably be adding new features to it after the new year. -- Peter Jones, http://pmade.com pmade inc. Louisville, CO US