Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: |it less fun. And let's not discount the cost of making |things less fun in a volunteer project. The large quantity |have been responded to. The remaining objections are either |vague (so there's not much specific one can do), or |suggestions to complicate the development process (not a |Dozens of emails about a minor cleanup of what is almost |surely bogus noise? To have it said once: i would love to see a kind person that respects cultural circumstances when they arise as the maintainer of the TZ database, not one who irons over them. It's surely only because of misunderstanding, but that doesn't make it any better. The only real, usable improvement in all that discussion was the suggestion that the data could be improved and that the tools could be adjusted to cramp the range that is used to build the binary data, so as to save space (and maybe speedup some algorithm, i have never dealt with the TZ code). Zefram seemed to be willing to write the code necessary for that. Imho it would be an improvement if that would be possible, adding some new valid historical data, leaving it off on purpose, on request. *Much* better than the other way around, for sure. Speaking of it, and being on a level with it: ?0[steffen@sherwood tz.git]$ git blame --line-porcelain origin/master -- europe | sed -n 's/^author //p' | sort | uniq -c 2868 Arthur David Olson 155 Paul Eggert ?0[steffen@sherwood tz.git]$ git lo -1 0fdbcdc * 0fdbcdc Release tzcode2013a and tzdata2013a. ?0[steffen@sherwood tz.git]$ git blame --line-porcelain 0fdbcdc -- europe | sed -n 's/^author //p' | sort | uniq -c 2925 Arthur David Olson 48 Paul Eggert I personally, and having spoken with noone whomsoever, am the opinion that the TZ database would be better off if a project like NetBSD, that aims in producing portable code, and regulary tests it on a widespread basis, would hold both the code but also the data as trustee for IANA. I think this change would be a win for both parts of TZ. It is hard to imagine that, there, such changes, and especially the irritating ones, would be introduced at first. I agree that it was much nicer once i didn't know how the result was achieved. --steffen