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[Tomaz Canabrava]

European portuguese is very different from Brazilian portuguese.
( I remember that I had to speak in english on the portugal  Airport... )


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Pedro Neves <nevesdiver at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:
>
>
> On 2013-05-21 17:03, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>
>> Really? http://subsurface.hohndel.org/**bugtracker/<http://subsurface.hohndel.org/bugtracker/>;-)
>>
>
> Ooops. My bad ;-)
>
>
>  why delete them? Just curious.
>>
>
> Just in case one doesn't need a specific tag. For instance, I'll never use
> the "deep" (how deep is deep anyway...?) or "pool" (I don't log pool dives)
> tags...
>
>
>  Certainly something we can investigate. Please file a ticket :-)
>>
> Done...
>
>  Here's my analysis. It took us a solid month of work by multiple people
>> to get the current implementation in place. We've had several lengthy
>> discussions with people who were complaining about subtleties that are
>> different from the way things are done in dive computers (e.g., dive
>> computer take the ascent into account when calculating ceilings, dive
>> computers often let you exit the water before mathematically you should
>> be able to - in one example, once the ceiling is less than 20cm it lets
>> you exit, which with some slow tissues can make a several minute
>> difference in final deco stop). Adding more algorithms will take more
>> development time from developers who could work on things that are
>> interesting to a larger audience. I believe there are already a couple
>> of tools out there that allow experimentation with different models.
>>
>> Frankly for the target audience of Subsurface my guess is that fewer
>> than 1% of them are interested in this. While >50% might be interested
>> in, say, better handling of tags. Or the ability to associate pictures
>> that you took during a dive with the dive profile.
>>
>> So I'm much more likely to encourage that.
>>
>
> I accept that.
>
>> Dive analysis:
>>>
>> Again - how many of our users will really care about this. You and...?
>> I do a bit of technical diving and I cannot envision myself looking at
>> that. But then maybe I'm wrong and there are thousands of people who
>> don't use Subsurface because it is missing this one feature :-)
>>
>
> No worries. I can accept your view, although my interest on this analysis
> has nothing to do with technical diving. I bet that not having this feature
> isn't preventing anyone from using Subsurface, but I just thought that it
> would be a nice (and useful) feature to have. Also, since we already
> calculate the deco ceiling, I would think that doing this analysis would
> not be overly complex, or am I missing anything?
>
>
>  Yes, the readme was uploaded as an experiment and we (I) couldn't quite
>> figure out how to make that useful to the user, so I locked the
>> translation so translators wouldn't spend unnecessary time on it :-(
>>
>> I assume that I'll make a 3.1.1 release in a few weeks and I will of
>> course pull your Portuguese translation for that. Thank you so much.
>>
>> Would you be interested in helping to translate the website as well?
>>
>
> I guess I could do it, but since we already have the website in Brazilian
> Portuguese, I don't quite see the point of having it also in "European"
> portuguese. I'd prefer spending time working on the documentation...
>
>
>  Yes. This has been requested by a few people and can even be extended to
>> include maintenance reminders (especially important for rebreather
>> divers). So that's definitely something that we should investigate.
>>
>
> Cool. Let me know if I can help with anything.
>
>
>> Thanks for all the input and help!
>>
>
> No worries. It is you guys that I need to thank for all your work. I'll be
> more than happy to give my small contributions to this project.
>
> Cheers:
>
> Pedro
>
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