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 Beancount plugin and tools for Conservancy's books
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+Introduction
+------------
+
+This repository includes code that Software Freedom Conservancy uses to keep its books in Beancount. It includes:
+
+* A Beancount plugin to validate that transactions are documented according to business rules, and normalize "enum-like" metadata we have defined
+* A set of financial business reports from the books
+* Related tools to help with audit and tax reporting
+
 Installation
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 Of course, if you're familiar with Python development tools, you're welcome to install the module in a virtualenv, somewhere else, etc.
 
-Running all tests
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-
-The project comes with a Tox configuration that defines all the tests we expect to pass, across all the different environments we support. To run them all, run::
-
-  tox
-
-The next sections describe how to run them standalone in your own development environment, for faster iteration or simpler isolation of problems.
-
-Running unit tests
-------------------
-
-Run::
-
-  pytest
-
-Type checking
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-
-Most of the code is typed, except for very dynamic loader methods. To run the type checker::
-
-  mypy conservancy_beancount
+Development
+-----------
 
-This is expected to pass just like the unit tests.
+``doc/Development.rst`` explains how to work on this code, including an overview of how modules are organized.
 
 Legal
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