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

[Miika Turkia]

Rec diver so current implementation is more than enough for me. Don't care
about the extras...

miika
On Jan 6, 2015 5:16 PM, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> 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
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