Now Accepting GSoC 2016 Mentor Organization Applications

[JB2Cool]

On 9 February 2016 at 12:48, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 12:17:50 PM Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Robert Helling <helling at atdotde.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > A possible project I could mentor in the summer would be a mobile
> version of
> > the planner (if nobody vetos it). That would be a separate app from
> > subsurface-mobile but of course share a lot of code.
> >
> > I would love this!  But why having it as a separate app?
>
> We only have a fighting chance to create an app that feels high-quality if
> we
> reduce complexity. Dirk has said it before, and I'm entirely behind this:
> dive
> planning is not a core feature for the foreseeable future. We need to limit
> the featureset to the absolute necessary for quite a while.
>
> I'd much rather have something small, stable and high quality than a swiss
> army knife that falls apart the moment you look at it.
>
> There are many areas in subsurface which need improvements, implementing a
> dive planner is going to distract from making them work really well.
> --
> sebas
>
> So don't implement the dive planning into the subsurface-mobile just yet
but does this really justify the creation of another companion app to
perform the dive planning? That'll then be 3 mobile subsurface apps we
have, surely better to restrict the number of them and eventually (Even if
it's a while out) merge the functionality into a single app.

JB
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