Ha, it feels like I said this before. A couple of times.
Many of the issues that were found and reported at the last minute are now
fixed and the first release will be better for it.
1.0.2(4.5.2.1062) is now in the Beta channel and unless we have another show
stopper in the next 12 hours I intend to release this as our first product and
announce it to the world. The final user manual is up. The store listing exists
in English and German. If people wouldn't mind, Google suggests (based on their
analysis of where we'd find interested users), that we should add French,
Brazilian Portuguese and Italian to that list - and I think Spanish would be
very useful, too. It's just a few sentences, so maybe those of you with the
necessary skills could send translations for this part:
Short description (up to 80 chars):
Mobile version of the popular Subsurface dive log desktop application
Full description:
Subsurface is a free open source dive log application available on Windows, Mac
and Linux. Subsurface-mobile allows you to access your dive log on your tablet
or phone. Simply create a Cloud Storage account with the Subsurface desktop
application, store your dive log in the cloud and then enter the same
credentials in Subsurface-mobile.
Now you can easily see your dive lists and details, and quickly change those
details on a mobile device. Subsurface-mobile lets you track GPS fixes during a
dive trip and apply those to your dive list. You can also manually add new
dives to a dive list.
While Subsurface-mobile does not currently allow downloading dive data directly
from dive computers, a future version will provide that function as well.
Subsurface-mobile replaces the Subsurface companion app.
There is currently one oddity when using Subsurface-mobile on an Android
device: the screen doesn't always scroll correctly when the keyboard is opened.
Sometimes you have to close the keyboard to get to the lower part of the
screen. We are working on a fix but didn't want to further delay the first
release for this.
I have to say I'm extremely excited about this release. And I know that our
friends in the Plasma team (especially Marco, Sebas, and Thomas), without whom
we would have never gotten to this very impressive first release, are almost as
excited as I am. This is the first release of a Kirigami based project that
isn't part of Plasma - and I believe this will be the first Kirigami
application in the Google Play store.
At this point I don't know how much interest we'll create outside the developer
community. It could be a few dozen users (OK, I doubt that), or it could be
thousands. It seems like this would be something that a lot of people would
want - but I have proven a remarkably bad judge of what people want.
Once I have the announcement written, please share it in local forums and help
promote this app. We put so much effort in it, it would be a shame not to let
as many people as possible know about it.
My special thanks goes to Marco, Sebastian and Thomas. Their help and support
has been amazing. From the user interaction design to the implementation of the
first draft of the UI to the amazing work on Kirigami. Just one example of just
how supportive they have been: When I finally realized that I couldn't figure
out what the issue was with the delete / undo notification not working, I
looked for Marco on IRC at 9pm local time on a Friday evening. Got immediate
help, great support narrowing down the offending commit on the Subsurface side
and then within a few minutes a fix on the Kirigami side that addressed the
issue that I inadvertently triggered with what I thought would be a harmless
change. This just exemplifies the cooperation and support that we have gotten
from the Plasma team - I cannot praise them enough for their help and I hope
that many others will reach out and say thank you.
The stats for this release are mostly meaningless. This mixes desktop and
mobile changes, has a bunch of small cleanups in the middle, but hey, I always
post those, so I'll post them today:
$ git shortlog -s -n v4.5.0..
532 Dirk Hohndel
230 Tomaz Canabrava
98 Sebastian Kügler
58 Lubomir I. Ivanov
35 Miika Turkia
22 Robert Helling
20 Joakim Bygdell
17 Linus Torvalds
15 Rick Walsh
11 Jan Mulder
10 Guido Lerch
9 Willem Ferguson
8 Anton Lundin
8 K. \"pestophagous\" Heller
8 Marco Martin
7 Henrik Brautaset Aronsen
7 Salvador Cuñat
4 Giorgio Marzano
4 Stephen Hemminger
3 Wendie Fisher
2 krisalpha
2 Guillaume GARDET
2 Sergey Starosek
2 Pedro Neves
1 Gaetan Bisson
1 Rex Dieter
1 Ash Kamel
1 Steve
As always my thanks goes to everyone on this list - and to all of you who
tested, provided feedback, helped track down bugs, translated and all that.
(which reminds me - yes, translation is still on the todo list - after the
initial release... Subsurface came out in English only as well :-> )
So let's hope nothing bad shows up so I don't need to re-do this email and
re-do the stats.
Thanks everyone. I'm having a blast.
What's next? Well, I have an idea or two:
- localization
- iOS version
- 4.5.4 of the desktop version
- work towards 4.6 (statistics, finish the dive site management, rewrite of the
manual dive edit, etc)
The work is going to become a lot more, that's for sure.
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