feature request: multi-valued buddies list

[Dirk Hohndel]

Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> writes:

> On Mar 3, 2013, at 6:49 AM, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>> 
>> The current one-buddy model is very PADI-centric,
>
> Spare me the insults, please. There is nothing whatsoever that is 'paid' centric about Subsurface.

Oh I love autocorrect sometimes. Because correcting "PADI" (the most
'give me the money' of the dive agencies) to "paid" is just wonderful.

My point was - nothing in Subsurface is designed based on PADI (or any
other dive agency for that matter). I have certs from PADI, SDI and TDI
(and Linus has some SSI as well). My brother is a CMAS instructor and
happy user of Subsurface...

>> and it probably true for similar organisations such as SSI, but
>> doesn't match CMAS practice of 2-6 people diving teams. I guess just
>> making turning the single-valued 'buddy' into a multi-valued
>> 'buddies' would be enough to fit both models.
>
> I frequently dive with many buddies - just list them all under
> "buddy". From a UI perspective a solution that separately picks zero
> to n buddies (hey, there are solo divers, too) is just completely
> unusable.