Tom Nicholas

> If the dict repr from list_engines is still not good enough maybe replacing the dict with a custom MutableMapping with a good repr format could be a way forward?...

We discussed this with Jessica in the xarray community meeting today and I think the conclusion was to return a dict of backend objects with nice reprs to begin with,...

> Does anyone know if the backentrypoints are supposed to have an available attribute? Looks like they are - every subclass of `BackendEntryPoint` seems to define `.available`. In each case...

> This was more abstract than expected Yeah I was kind of asking whether this was unnecessarily abstract, and if there was a simpler design that achieved the same flexibility.

Great, thank you @DanielGoman ! You might also be interested to look at this other recent PR which also added some examples to DataArra methods. https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/7088

Is someone able to let us in to the zoom meeting room today?

Thanks for doing this @slevang ! Would you mind adding a tiny regression test too?

I don't understand why this failed - it works when I build the docs locally, but the RTD build doesn't give me a useful error message...

Hi @andreas-schwab, and welcome to xarray! Can you tell what specific failures this change fixed for you? If there was something failing we want to capture it in our test...

> It's already perfectly covered by the testsuite. Okay great, but then why are these tests failing for you (locally?) and not in our CI runs? (Our `main` branch just...