I could probably whip up something basic as an early prototype for broader feedback.  I agree that starting with notices received from 2019-01-01T00Z onwards is probably a reasonable cutoff for now.

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Tim Parenti

On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 13:02, Philip Paeps <philip@trouble.is> wrote:

On 2018-12-30 10:33:29 (-0700), Brian Inglis wrote:
>Given some recent last minute end of year announcements

Not just the end of year ... I remember quite a few short- and no-notice
changes this year.

>could I please suggest creating a new document to formally track
>metadata about every time change notice's lead time from 2019, as a
>basis for stats, info, distributor/vendor additions and enhancements,
>walls of shame, etc. as this has never yet been suggested AFAIR.

Excellent idea!

>If anyone has been doing this already, perhaps they could contribute
>their data; and anyone with interest and time could backfill data from
>mailing list posts.

Starting with 2019 would be a very good start.

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information