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.
