[PLEASE VOTE] so what should we be working on

[Steve]

Sorry for the top post.  On my phone this Sunday morning in Vancouver,  WA.  
I had planned to add C++ to my repertoire.   Crazy me -- that will have to wait until I retire in a year.  So not much to contribute from this end.  I may have downloaded mobile to my phone.   But never used it.  When I'm diving, I'm diving.  If a club dive then we swap stories afterwards and go home to wash the gear. 
It may be a day or two later before the desktop mates with the DC to pull down the dive info.  In fact the dives from a week ago will finally be read sometime today.
My wife tells me that her newest version of the desktop doesn't read her new DC.  Something about COM3 and the COBALT 2.  Her box is Windows based while mine is Ubuntu.   I may try her DC on my box.  If that works then I will once again bad mouth Billy.  If not then you may hear from me.
So, I'm using the desktop and loving it.  Don't abandon Subservice. 


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-------- Original message --------From: Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> Date: 5/28/16  14:37  (GMT-08:00) To: Subsurface Mailing List <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> Subject: [PLEASE VOTE] so what should we be working on 
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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