TOPIC: Suggestion: Yearly fees to support TR development

Your claims are taken out of context.

The development of TR has been stagnating for years now. People here would be willing to pay money if new features were added. But apparently the development doesn't pay off for the vendors of this software. Or can you tell me what new features have been added in the last few years?

For example, I would like to be able to print out my goals or export them as PDF. I've wanted this feature for several years now.

Using the code from 2009 is just like using an iPhone from 2009, most people wouldn't be happy with it. I would like the software to be further developed and would also be willing to pay for it, including an annual subscription. The developers should earn money with it, so that it pays off. Nobody should work for free.

The idea of releasing the code is only meant if the developers decide not to develop anything further. There was a similar case with the Blender 3D code back then and people are grateful for it today. I myself don't need the code because I'm not a developer, but a user and would like to have the often desired features added. I'm grateful for this software and what the developers have created, we just want information about the future plans for the software.

Agreed. They could set up an account on a donation site. A web search of "patreon alternatives" will produce a list of donation sites with lower fees than Patreon.

Same here. I'd happily pay for the program to keep it up to date.

Hi all, thank you for all your support posts. We will try to get more development going. I will try to get some yearly subscription set up so that you can deduct the costs as expenses rather than donation. But nothing is simple - might need to upgrade the website which is a large task.

Please post enhancements suggestions. I am now on holidays for two weeks from my paid job (Test Lead and Functional specialist) so I will have time to define the requirements and design for the developer.
On the current list: small improvements on the calendar views and maybe re-design the goals to allow users to define better the systems to put in place to achieve them, maybe renaming some of the fields - I am reading Atomic Habits book at the moment.

Regarding the goals report, please give us ideas what you would like:
- how 'deep' do you want the data: Goals, sub-goals, projects, actions? that will be challenging to display. There are also a lot of fields on each goals
- order by the top goal level?
- which parameters?

We could based the design on the project summary and project details reports and have two reports for goals too.

Hello Claire,
here are my enhancement suggestions, all taken from previous posts, in a priority order:
- a problem for lot of your users: TR won't start with Catalina (Java 8 problem), see this previous post
- a bug with a calendar view ("Do ASAP" actions won't show ), see this previous post
- integration with Google calendar, see your previous post
- email unusable without a proxy, see your previous post

I've also a suggestion about the governance: use some free collaboration tools (GitHub, BitBucket, what you want), but without opensource the code, if you can develop. In this way:
- we can open issues about bugs and make feature requests, that you can clearly tag
- you can do some polls or whatever for roadmaps
- you can host and cache tarballs/archives of TR

Otherwise, please add some plugins in your Joomla instance, to better handle this last points.
I'd like to really avoid using cloud services, and I'm on your side if you want to host all this material on your server...but please give us a possibility.
Thanks

Here are the results of the day:
Enh 1: We have found a way to install it on Catalina. Download the jre version. When clinking on the pkg file, press the 'control' key and click on the mouse. Select the 'open' option. There will be a warning that you can ignore. It worked on our test Macbook pro with Catalina installed.
Enh 2: I have replied on your post and I have added what we are thinking of doing
Enh 3: will add it to the list
Enh 4: I think it works. I will test again.

Code is already on GitHub. We will investigate in the new year regarding polls etc. Internally we will use JIRA for our development.