ANNOUNCE: SiGeFi v0.2

[Batista, Facundo]

We're proud to announce the 0.2 version of SiGeFi, which you can find
at:

	http://sourceforge.net/projects/sigefi

	
What is SiGeFi?
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SiGeFi is a Financial Management System, with focus in the needs of
the administration of the money in each personal life and house.

Always keeping the easy usage and concepts, SiGeFi has features of a 
complex Management system:

- Complies with Double Entry Accounting

- Has a Budget-based Money Distribution system

- Allow to make Loans between accounts (with associated financial
  costs)

And of course, it's completely written in Python (didn't decided the
GUI yet).


What is in this version?
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We are in Alpha status! (ohmmmmm...)

We get out of pre-alpha because be finished with all the modules and
their unit tests, so we shouldn't have functionality changes in the future.

We're still in alpha because vital parts of the project are still missing
(a graphical interface and internationalize it, as the most important two).

Functionality change:
- Added the posibility of check a transaction as already controlled (e.g. 
  against a bank statement).

Internal changes:
- Created specific exceptions for the project (when needed).
- Integrated decimal.py to handle amounts.
- Added properties and __repr__ method to all classes.
- Refactored the way an entry ('Asiento') is created.
- Added mappings (in dictionaries) between system constants and their
  descriptions.
- Build a dictionary of controllers.

Be aware that the documentation is not translated yet, it's only in
Spanish.


What can I expect for the next version?
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To us to finish code internationalization and documentation:

- Translate code
- Finish classes' documentation (docstring)
- UML update
- Doctests
- GUI guidelines


How can I help?
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In a thousand ways, there's a lot of things to do: documentation,
fixing code, set up the web page, etc...

If you want to participate, send us a mail to the list 
(sigefi-list at lists.sourceforge.net) or directly to us.


Thank you.

.	Facundo
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