Paul Goyette via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote on Fri, 24 Sep 2021 at 12:13:43 EDT in <Pine.NEB.4.64.2109240911420.16051@speedy.whooppee.com>:
a: Paul move his changes to a branch and release 2021b as 2021a+Samoa
On Wednesday (so long ago), I asked why we would *not* do that. There was no answer: John Hawkinson <jhawk@alum.mit.edu> wrote on Wed, 22 Sep 2021 at 15:22:21 EDT in <20210922192221.GE41824@alum.mit.edu>:
I don't understand why we would release 2021b as-proposed. What is the timliness that requires doing that?
Making that release will make it *far* more difficult to undo, when most downstream consumers adopt it.
It effectively pretermits the discussion we are having. I think it is imprudent, unwise, and a bit unfair.
So again, why would we not do this? What interest does it serve to do otherwise? -- jhawk@alum.mit.edu John Hawkinson