On Fri, 24 Sept 2021 at 11:05, Eliot Lear via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
Before you put out a "good final position", could you please respond to Paul on his compromise proposal.
I think I did just that. The compromise of a short delay is good. The compromise position of smaller chunks of link-merging is unnecessary if we can agree on a better alternate solution. Once a better approach is agreed we can lay down a specific plan in advance to roll it out, effectively side-stepping the negative aspects of multiple separate link-merges. As such, it makes no sense to have any link merging in 2021b. (Paul's compromise position is unclear as to whether he intends to have no link-merging in 2021b, or just a smaller amount. Given the immediate damage a link-merge causes Joda-Time's millions of users, I don't have the ability to compromise on the contents of 2021b wrt link-merging. But I do have the ability to seek a consensus solution that can be rolled out in a planned manner, even if that requires changes to Joda-Time.) Stephen