On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 5:58 PM Stephen Colebourne via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
In this thread I want to try and capture the *requirements* for the project from the perspective of a downstream user. Given this, we may then have a chance to analyse whether the project needs a change of rules.
Thanks for starting this. Are you thinking that these are akin to user stories for just the data, or for everything? Besides the discussion you opened, there are related topics that can be added, such as (but not totally): - What is the public API of the project, and how is it advertised? - What is the backwards-compatability policy should a change be needed to the public API? For those types of topics, there is inspiration from many of the well-managed F/OSS ecosystems. And this be a nit, but I think "What is the time now?" needs to be more explicitly "What is the wall-time for a particular person now?" and similar for past and future. --Matthew Donadio (matt@mxd120.com)