[PLEASE VOTE] so what should we be working on

John Smith noseygit at hotmail.com
Sun May 29 00:06:38 PDT 2016



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> On 28 May 2016, at 23:37, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 
> 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?
Please don't. I'm only a user and having looked at some of the underlying programming via git, I am years away from being able to assist with that side but I have tried to help where I can
> (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...
At present mobile is usable and in my opinion stable enough to keep. Desktop does everything that it's meant to. If you go into maintainable mode for a while, it won't hurt, but keep both mobile and desktop running
> (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?
I use both android and iOS mobile and it is really useful. I can bug report and test but can't program for toffee
> (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?
Like others have said, I only put in a location and a gps position dive sites
> (5) focus on Subsurface 5.0, write a completely new UI and abandon what we have in 4.5?
Do you need a new ui?
> 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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