towards 4.9.4

Sat Apr 11 15:14:51 PDT 2020

So,
Installed new vers from ci-release and no dives appear. uninstalled and
reinstalled lates beta on playstore... all dives are back to normal.

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 01:11 Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> No it doesn't, the new storage can be tested by people who are curious.
> You need to compile from source and use cloud2.subsurface-divecomputer.org
> as URL
>
> The back end is designed to keep the two servers in sync. But that needs
> lots more testing.
>
> If your cloud data is in fact missing, let me know and I'll take a look on
> the servers...
>
> /D
>
> On April 11, 2020 2:33:25 PM PDT, Chirana Gheorghita Eugeniu Theodor <
> office at adaptcom.ro> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>>
> --
> From my phone
>
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