[tz] Commentary-only releases - let's not (was: Re: Please Don't Feed the Trolls (was Kyiv not Kiev))

[Petro Ord]

> If we somehow get through this year's late silly season with no urgent
> releases, the current release will be out-of-date on 2023-March-21 (due
> to DST changes in Iran) so we'd need a release a few months before then
> to allow plenty of lead time for downstream maintainers and consumers.

So the fact that Ukraine DST ends in October 2022 does even bother you.

пт, 1 июл. 2022 г. в 21:11, Ian Abbott via tz <tz at iana.org>:
>
> On 01/07/2022 04:13, Tom Lane via tz wrote:
> > [...]  In my recollection,
> > there is pretty much always at least one release every spring and
> > every fall, when some-government-or-other decides they need to
> > change their DST rules with minimal notice.  So in practice there's
> > a six-months-or-less release cadence, and I doubt that making it
> > three or four months would change anything noticeable.
>
> If we somehow get through this year's late silly season with no urgent
> releases, the current release will be out-of-date on 2023-March-21 (due
> to DST changes in Iran) so we'd need a release a few months before then
> to allow plenty of lead time for downstream maintainers and consumers.
>
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