Input requested [was: [PATCH] Use proper gas names in the divelist.]

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 11:11:38AM +0100, Joakim Bygdell wrote:
> > We have traditionally shown the gas we thought most "interesting". So if
> > you are diving trimix, the one with the highest He. If diving air, show
> > air. But if diving with multiple flavors of nitrox, it's debatable what's
> > most interesting. The bottom gas? The highest percentage deco gas? That's
> > why we do these ranges...
> > 
> > Before changing this I'd really like to have a conversation here on what
> > people would like us to display (and why).
> > 
> 
> First of all, the dive list is the only place where we use other gas names than any where else.
> We even have two different names for air depending on if it is the only gas or if the dive have multiple gases.
> 
> Secondly we should be more consistent in how we display things,
>  either we show deco gases if they exist or we don’t, regardless if the bottom mix contains helium or not.
> 
> After changing that it becomes rather obvious that we only should show one gas or we will start showing stuff like 18/45..oxygen.
> 
> The only time it might be a issue which gas we should show is if the dive have multiple nitro mixes that are fairly close in oxygen content.
> But on the other hand does it matter if we show EAN31 or EAN33 in the dive list?

So you wrote the patch and you argued your point.

I want to hear from others, but maybe no one cares?

I'll admit that I like what we currently do, given my diving patterns it
gives me great information. I'm pretty sure that Linus likes it, too,
since he's the one who implemented it :-)

What about the other main contributors? Anton, Miika, Robert, Willem?

What about the very silent very majority... there are 250 people on this
list. About 10% of them write code, so the rest are by definition most
likely users... any comments?

/D