Delivered-To: sdaoden@gmail.com Received: by 10.43.4.198 with SMTP id od6csp271496icb; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:43:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.68.168.99 with SMTP id zv3mr3579021pbb.144.1379616200002; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:43:20 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.lax.icann.org (smtp01.icann.org. [192.0.33.81]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id xn6si7360064pbc.2.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 192.0.33.81 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of tz-bounces@iana.org) client-ip=192.0.33.81; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 192.0.33.81 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of tz-bounces@iana.org) smtp.mail=tz-bounces@iana.org Received: from mm.icann.org (mm.icann.org [192.0.32.100]) by smtp1.lax.icann.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r8JIhIf6022636; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:43:18 GMT Received: from mm.icann.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm.icann.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D946003CC; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:43:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: tz@mm.icann.org Delivered-To: tz@mm.icann.org Received: from pechora7.dc.icann.org (pechora7.icann.org [IPv6:2620:0:2830:201::1:73]) by mm.icann.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CC3608AEF for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (smtp1.Stanford.EDU [171.67.219.81]) by pechora7.dc.icann.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r8JIguI4021321 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:43:17 GMT Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 429EA2322A for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.67.225.134]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1E1722241 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by windlord.stanford.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9B151256A9; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:42:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Russ Allbery To: Time Zone Database discussion In-Reply-To: (Andy Heninger's message of "Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:21:53 -0700") Organization: The Eyrie References: <52303DFC.1070309@cs.ucla.edu> <5231DDBE.3090008@cs.ucla.edu> <5238CBBA.3050003@cs.ucla.edu> <5238FAE4.6020406@cs.ucla.edu> <20130919074636.GM14518@apb-laptoy.apb.alt.za> <523B1A4E.6010304@cs.ucla.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:42:55 -0700 Message-ID: <878uysejps.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Greylist: IP, sender and recipient auto-whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (pechora7.dc.icann.org [192.0.46.73]); Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [tz] draft of change summary for next tz release X-BeenThere: tz@iana.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Time Zone Database discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: tz-bounces@iana.org Errors-To: tz-bounces@iana.org Status: RO Andy Heninger writes: > 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. The tricky part with quick, small releases is that, if you've already staged things for the next release, you have to revert those changes or you have to branch. (You can, of course, branch proactively to do the staging, but it amounts to the same thing.) This means an additional level of complexity to the development process and possibly the versioning process that historically hasn't been used, and basically means more work for Paul. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)