towards 4.9.4

[Chirana Gheorghita Eugeniu Theodor]

Good,
So the new vers 4.9.3.1432 uses different cloud storage?
Because I just installed from ci-release and my heart stopped for a moment.
0 dives on cloud storage.


On Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 21:26 Dirk Hohndel via subsurface <
subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:

>
> It's been forever (well, just over seven months and about 1400 commits)
> since our last desktop release.
> I think I have all the outstanding PRs merged (and I just noticed that
> GitHub apparently lost our default settings for rebased-merges in the last
> couple of days and now we are back to having merge commits in master...
> grmbl).
>
> Binaries should be building and available by the time I finished writing
> this email - the latest should always be here:
> https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/releases/tag/ci-release
>
> Obviously, a lot has changed since 4.9.3 and this deserves some solid
> testing.
>
> At this point I have no time line as to when I'm hoping to release this.
> Given that few people are diving these days (and more or less no one is
> going on dive trips) there doesn't appear to be much urgency, but at the
> same time it might be harder to get people to actually TEST things.
>
> Things that I know need doing and reviewing (and all of these I'm happy to
> receive help with):
>
> - the user manual will need some updating to reflect the many changes that
> we've made
> - all of the build infrastructures should be updated to the newest Qt
> version (and with the GitHub Actions anyone who is bored could actually
> work on this - macOS I think is the only real exception as I still build
> the 'actual' binaries here locally, but Windows, Android, Linux are all up
> for volunteers)
> - we need to make sure that we are building for the current Linux distros
> (Ubuntu 20.04 is coming up, I'm not sure what the state is of Fedora,
> openSUSE and anything else we might have native packages for)
> - I'm planning to work on making the git storage tests (a) work again at
> all and (b) more robust and useful -- I have set up a new backend server
> for the cloud storage that I want to migrate to in the next few weeks and
> would love to be feel a little more comfortable that this won't break
> things for people
> - overall we need more tests and more test coverage -- but I've been
> saying this for years
> - it would be good to make sure that we haven't broken things. I never use
> the planner, I rarely ever use pictures and videos, there are a lot of UI
> features that I never touch (like configure dive computer)
>
> I'm sure I'm missing many things for this list, but I'll stop here since
> (as expected) most of the builds appear to have completed so you all can
> start testing :-)
>
> To those of you following one of the major world religions - enjoy your
> high holidays. To us atheists: well, you're on your own and you know that.
>
> /D
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