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

Willem Ferguson willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za
Tue Jan 6 10:19:54 PST 2015


On 06/01/2015 17:16, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
I admit that I have become so comfortable with the dive list interface 
that I have accepted it as the best way to present the information. I 
understand that 17/55 is not the same comparable information as 26..50% 
since the latter includes the last deco gas of the dive. But does one 
really want access to all the deco gases with trimix as well?  The 
sorting using gas as a key works pretty well and summarises the dive gas 
quite consistently for my purposes. I can see the advantage of creating 
more columns in the Dive list, but I am unlikely to use such a facility 
simply because I think I do much fewer dives (maybe 60 dives/y) than 
most of you: my dive list does not run into very large numbers.
Kind regards,
willem




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