<<On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:01:32 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> said:
I hope you can understand why I find phrases like "far in excess of what is acceptable to me" to be hostile and confrontational, and not helpful in reaching a collaborative consensus. That's a bargaining tactic in a hostile negotiation, which I would really hope we could avoid.
Seconded. I've actually been moderately unhappy with some of the recent changes myself, but I've refrained from saying anything because I think the atmosphere has been somewhat poisoned by the confrontational attitudes being taken by other participants. I do think, on a more general level, that it is a bit unfortunate that the format of the tzdata files is now effectively frozen because so many external users have chosen to parse the source rather than the compiled form. This will make it much more difficult to make changes in the future, should they be needed. I suppose this can be put down to the human-readable nature of the source files, as compared to the binary format emitted by zic (which has itself never had a backward-incompatible change, and like the source files is machine-independent). -GAWollman