On 09/04/13 13:08, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
commits to the repo form the basis of the permanent record of the group.
No, the github repository eggert/tz is my personal experimental version. The permanent record of this group (including all the diffs sent via email) is published by the IANA at <http://www.iana.org/time-zones>. The recent flurry of detailed comments about relatively minor points in the experimental version has tempted me to go back to how Arthur David Olson did it, which was to not publish experimental versions. Perhaps Arthur's way was better after all -- it was less work for everybody involved, anyway.
A much better practice would be to revert in full
I suspect that we're looking at a clash of maintenance styles here. I prefer not to create clones of earlier versions (if you want the earlier version, it's easy enough to find it), but other people do. No matter which style is chosen, people who prefer the other style will find it irritating. I'm not sure it's worth micro-managing this, though.