On 28 May, 2016 - Dirk Hohndel 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? >
The greenhouse project is finally done, so now I'm down to 3 projects working on the house. Maybe there's some time for subsurface now? > > 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. I'd vote on 4, then 3. My personal plans are in some sort of semi-prioritized order: * clean up the custom serial code, get it to work for all backends. * clobber up a download dialog in -mobile (Willem, please beat me to it =) * clobber up a simple planner in the -mobile version * ? * ... * profit! //Anton -- Anton Lundin +46702-161604 _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
