[tz] Some thoughts about the way forward

[Stephen Colebourne]

On Fri, 24 Sept 2021 at 10:15, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:
> > > OK, how about if I scale back the current round of link-merging, so that it's on the scale of what we've done in previous releases? I would not at all be happy with such an approach since it would delay the release of an equitable solution, but if this approach will help reach consensus I can prepare a patch along those lines. The idea would be to finish the job in the next few releases.
> >
> > I really am trying to find a compromise here (even if it's a compromise
> > that nobody likes :-). However, a compromise works only if the other
> > side accepts it.

As an indication of good faith, I also commit to changing Joda-Time's
two-decade long behaviour wrt treating Links as full aliases if we can
delay the link merging and release a simple 2021a+Samoa/Jordan.

Stephen