While I agree that the two month difference in a release likely wouldn't have made a difference, what is the disadvantage of having more frequent releases?
Jacob Pratt On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote: > On 3/25/25 05:22, Carlos Raúl Perasso via tz wrote: > > The period from the October 2024 development repository update to the > > January 2025 deployment version, impacting the March rule change, was > > longer than ideal. > > > > I remain a strong advocate for the volunteer efforts that drive our > > community. However, this situation highlights a potential area for > > improvement. > > It's not hard to prepare a new release and hindsight tells us that an > October TZDB release would have been better. However, we delayed because > we thought that there was a good chance the Philippines would announce a > change that would take effect in January. We did a new TZDB release when > it became clear this wouldn't happen. > > There is a tension between releasing early and delaying a bit, a tension > that has little to do with Tim's and my maintenance effort. We could > release more quickly in the future, though this will entail more > downstream effort and mistakes. > > For what it's worth, my guess is that the recent glitches in Paraguay > wouldn't have been much less numerous even if we had released TZDB in > October, because the main bottleneck is that people don't install > updates. It'd be hard to prove this one way or the other, though. > >
