I released version 1.7 of ledger2beancount, a ledger to beancount converter.

This release contains a number of bug fixes and a new feature:

• Don't misparse account and commodity with mixed tab/space separators
• Rename account names consisting of a root name without subaccount
• Warn when non-standard root names are used
• Avoid duplicate open directives for accounts with name collisions
• Don't warn for renamed tags that won't show up in the beancount file
• Add account_regex option to mass rename account names
• Add man page and improve documentation

You can get ledger2beancount from GitHub.

Thanks to GitHub user Joradi98 for reporting some bugs. Thanks to Jelmer Vernooij for packaging ledger2beancount for Debian.

I attended FOSSASIA earlier this month. This conference has been on my radar for many years but I never managed to attend before.

I was impressed by the organization of the conference. Furthermore, I liked that the audience was completely different to the conferences I normally attend. There were so many new people. FOSSASIA has grown not just to be a conference, but also an umbrella organization for several open source projects.

I gave a talk about open source culture, using Debian as an example. I find this type of presentation important because this is where a lot of pitfalls are for many new contributors. Learning technologies is easy, but figuring out all the unwritten norms and rules of a community can be daunting. Of course, it was particularly interesting to give this talk in an environment where I'm the cultural outsider. While I've visited a number of Asian countries, there's a lot about the different cultures I have yet to learn.

I met a number of Debian contributors, including Andrew Lee, Norbert Preining (who talked about TeX Live), Graham Williams (who used to contribute to Debian in the early days and heads an AI team at Microsoft in Singapore now), Kai Hendry (who used to contribute to Debian) and others. I also spent some time away from the conference to write my DPL platform.

Thank you to Hong Phuc Dang, Mario Behling and all the other organizers and volunteers for a wonderful event!

Stefano Zacchiroli and I released version 1.6 of ledger2beancount, a ledger to beancount converter.

This release contains a number of bug fixes and a new feature:

• Add support for fixated prices and costs
• Handle account names that contain brackets
• Don't parse trailing tabs as part of the account name
• Escape backslashes in the narration

You can get ledger2beancount from GitHub.

Stefano Zacchiroli and I released version 1.5 of ledger2beancount, a ledger to beancount converter.

This release contains a number of bug fixes and new features:

• Replace commodities in balance assertions
• Add support for posting-level dates
• Add support for hledger features
• Add support for balance assignments
• Handle comments on the same line as the payee
• Handle comments, tags and metadata on postings with balance assertions
• Handle metadata on postings with cost or price information
• Handle simple implicit conversions

You can get ledger2beancount from GitHub.

Stefano Zacchiroli and I released version 1.4 of ledger2beancount, a ledger to beancount converter.

Version 1.4 contains a number of bug fixes:

• Don't parse trailing whitespace as part of the account name
• Replace commodities in lot costs
• Avoid mangling of lot cost with other lot information
• Don't require whitespace between {} and @ in lot information

You can get ledger2beancount from GitHub.

Stefano Zacchiroli and I released version 1.3 of ledger2beancount, a ledger to beancount converter.

Changes in version 1.3:

• Handle tags on the same line as postings correctly
• Allow (commented) beancount entries in ledger input file
• Handle amounts without leading zeroes

You can get ledger2beancount from GitHub.

Stefano Zacchiroli and I released version 1.2 of ledger2beancount, a ledger to beancount converter.

This version of ledger2beancount is compatible with beancount 2.1, which was released a few days ago.

Changes in version 1.2:

• Updates for beancount 2.1.0:
  • Allow UTF-8 letters and digits in account names
  • Allow full-line comments in transactions
  • Allow transaction tags and links on multiple lines
• Handle posting tags on multiple lines
• Always convert posting-level tags to metadata
• Improve parsing of the transaction header

You can get ledger2beancount from GitHub.

Stefano Zacchiroli and I have published version 1.1 of ledger2beancount, a ledger to beancount converter.

Incompatible changes: If you already use ledger2beancount, please note that the payee_match variable changed from a Yaml hash to a list (to make the order deterministic).

Version 1.1 includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements based on feedback from users.

Changes in version 1.1:

• Happy International Workers' Day release!
• Handle block comments without indentation correctly
• Preserve comments for postings with lots
• Use beancount's pushtag/poptag for ledger's apply tag
• Handle tag directives with associated commands correctly
• Allow option link_match to work with tag_as_metadata: true
• Handle posting-level tags without indentation correctly with tag_as_metadata: false
• Ensure payee_match is predictable
• Preserve comments for postings with lots
• Embed an optional beancount header to the converted file to specify beancount options
• Convert ledger metadata keys to valid beancount metadata keys
• Add conversion notes when accounts, commodities or metadata keys are automatically renamed by ledger2beancount
• Add capability to ignore certain lines
• Keep whitespace intact when renaming account names.
• Improve documentation on assigning payees based on transactions
• Add more test cases
• Run the test suite only if something has changed

You can get ledger2beancount from GitHub.

Stefano Zacchiroli and I released ledger2beancount, a script to convert ledger files to beancount. Ledger is a bookkeeping system based on text files. Beancount is another tool which follows a similar approach but which from my point of view is the way forward.

ledger2beancount supports most of the features and syntax of ledger. It also includes some features to improve the conversion from ledger to beancount. The supported ledger features are described in the README and there's a manual with detailed descriptions of ledger2beancount's features. There's also an illustrated example showing some of the differences between ledger and beancount.

Martin Blais released beancount 2.0 a few days ago, so this is a good time to give it a go. Beancount has a web UI called fava which is absolutely fantastic.

Debian is now working on the NVIDIA Jetson TX1 developer kit, a development board based on the Tegra X1 chip (Tegra 210), a 64-bit ARM chip.

We have a pre-built u-boot image in Debian as well as kernel and installer support. There are some minor kernel glitches but NVIDIA is very active upstream and I hope they'll get resolved soon.

The Jetson TX1 developer kit makes a pretty good 64-bit ARM development platform. The board is supported in mainline u-boot and the mainline kernel and NVIDIA are pretty responsive to bug reports. Unfortunately, a proprietary blob is required for USB (and Ethernet is connected via USB).

If you're interested in a good 64-bit ARM development platform, give Debian on the Jetson TX1 development kit a try.