[PLEASE VOTE] so what should we be working on

[David Tillotson]

On 28 May 2016 22:37:26 BST, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>I have been focused on other things for a while (and the why and the
>what will become public fairly soon) and decided to use that chance to
>figure out what would happen if I just stopped paying attention here
>for a while.
>
>Here's what I think I learned (correct me if I'm wrong)
>
>a) no one cares about Subsurface-mobile. No bug reports, no code, no
>suggestions, nothing. So I guess we should call this a failed attempt
>and abandon it - screw the 500 or so people who use it.  
>
>b) Miika continues to deal with any import bug that shows up. Awesome.
>Your patches have been pushed
>
>c) there continues to be a slow crawl of features, ideas, patches for
>the planner. Those have also been pushed (someone poke me if I got
>something wrong there)
>
>d) no one cares about the dive site mess that we have. The current
>version in Subsurface 4.5.x is pretty much unusable and makes no
>bleeping sense.  No patches, some suggestions for improvement, no
>discussion, nothing.
>
>
>In summary, this project is pretty much dead. I guess it does
>everything the formerly active developers wanted? Or everyone has moved
>on to more fun things? Or had children, changed jobs, built a house,
>lost their job, or one of a number of other life events?
>
>
>So what should we be working on...? Should we...
>
>(1) just shut this down and move on?
>(2) move things to maintenance mode, abandon Subsurface-mobile, fix
>bugs in Subsurface whenever we find time but otherwise declare victory?
>It won't be too painful to track libdicecomputer and keep making 4.5.x
>releases for a while, I guess...
>(3) focus on Subsurface-mobile, release the iOS version, update the
>Android version and see if there is a single person besides me who is
>willing to invest time into that?
>(4) focus on Subsurface 4.6, fix the dive site management and create a
>list of prioritized features that we want to get in place?
>(5) focus on Subsurface 5.0, write a completely new UI and abandon what
>we have in 4.5?
>
>If your vote is for 3, 4, or 5 I assume that you are volunteering to
>carry some of the work that is needed to get there.
>If you don't vote, I will count that as a vote for 1.
>
>/D
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As a user, I would say that 2 (or possibly 4) would be the most preferable of the options. The software as a whole does what it needs to, and most of it it does better than anything else available.
The mobile app is great for reference, and for quickly recording details while away from a full system, so excluding any breakthrough features, is as much as I need. Yes, there are still some niggles in the UI, but not enough to actually annoy a user IMHO.
I can't say that there is much wrong with the site management that I have seen, but I tend to just log a site name and GPS record.
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David Tillotson