February Status Update

Hi! Just wanted to post a general update about what’s going on with Buckets: mobile app progress, Buckets Beta and the future roadmap.

Mobile apps¶

I work on the mobile app (and corresponding desktop app changes) nearly every day. Progress is slow but steady. But because of the all mobile app work, some desktop bugs have languished a bit. So I’m hoping soon to pause mobile development for a few bug-fixing releases. I’m chomping at the bit to get back to desktop development. See?

Photo by David Dibert on Unsplash

Buckets Beta¶

Currently you can change your preferences to enable beta updates. Doing so gets you updates ahead of general release, but if there’s a bug in the beta version, you might not be able to do your budget! To alleviate this, there will be two separate apps: Buckets (the one you all have right now) and Buckets Beta. If Buckets Beta ends up with a bad bug, you’ll still be able to use normal Buckets to keep doing your budget.

The Buckets Beta logo is probably going to be green. Cause it’s greener?

Road map¶

Things look good for Buckets this year! Here’s the current, subject-to-change, missing-lots-of-detail, loosely sorted road map for the foreseeable future:

Finish current set of Desktop/Mobile shared changes
Release Buckets Beta (should be identical to current version)
Bug fix release for some OFX/CSV and other bugs
More Mobile work
Bank macro improvements (#132 and #205)
Any other improvements that fit

Don’t worry if your most-hoped-for feature isn’t listed. The road map is general and doesn’t include everything.

Happy Budgeting!

— Matt

Comments

Justin

Wed Feb 27, 2019 5:30

Thanks for the update. I recognize I'm about to ask a crystal ball question but does that roadmap come with any kind of "not to be taken as literal, merely a musing" timetable?

Matt

Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:33

Hi Justin, to avoid disappointing people (and because I have a history of estimating incorrectly) the best I can say is "as soon as I can." I'm hoping for the first two to be done by the end of this week, though.

Frank

Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:55

Thanks for the update Matt.

Sam

Tue Mar 5, 2019 5:40

But that horse doesn't have a bit. Seems free as a bird! Looking forward to checking out the beta version. Thanks!

Kevin

Fri Apr 19, 2019 4:02

Looking forward to both the mobile app and the bug squashing. Using Buckets for less than a month, I've noticed a couple things with transfers that might be considered bugs, or might not depending on the vision for the program: 1. When I enter a transfer, it creates two transactions that are not linked. If I see that I had a typo in the amount, I need to edit both transactions to fix it. 2. If I'm in the April register and enter a transfer for May 1 (scheduled payment of my credit card, in this case), the transaction is created on May 1 in the account where I enter it; but it shows up on the current date in the other account. This can be prevented by entering the transfer in the May register; but having separate registers by month is new to me so I didn't predict this.

Matt

Fri Apr 19, 2019 4:26

Kevin, Regarding the first, yes, that's a feature being considered: <https://github.com/buckets/application/issues/104> And this is the first I've heard of that date bug (yes, I think it's a bug). I've file that here: <https://github.com/buckets/application/issues/391>

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