[tz] draft of change summary for next tz release

Andy Heninger aheninger at google.com
Thu Sep 19 17:21:53 UTC 2013


While noisy, I think the very public development process is a good thing,
and that we will end up with better data overall as a result. I don't see
this as being at all incompatible with having quick, small updates for late
breaking rule changes.

But pretty much no matter what is decided here as a policy for managing
releases, I can deal with it.

  -- Andy



On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Alan Barrett wrote:
> > we have not been aware of such controversial changes before.
>
> And that's the main difference.  In the past, development
> was made privately, with intermediate patches sometimes
> emailed to the list but often not, and the only real notice of a change
> was a new release.  Now that I've been doing things on a public
> github site, we're getting lots more comments from people affected
> by changes as they're being considered.  So even though the development
> practice is roughly the same as before, and even though the proposed
> set of changes is far less intrusive than some previous changesets,
> people are understandably concerned by seeing the details of a process
> that were formerly invisible.
>
> I continue to be tempted to go back to the old way of keeping
> development private, not only because it'd be less work for me,
> but because I suspect it'd be less work for everyone else.
>
>
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