Bill Little

Thanks! Nice one fella :partying_face: There isn't a rush on this, but it's nice to be ahead of the curve for once... having the functionality before someone asks. Thanks for...

Related to https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/16022#issuecomment-1174794735, which was merged into `numpy`, but then reverted (as it broke `scipy` and `astropy`)

@DPeterK Fancy doing a rebase?

@pp-mo Whilst we're in this space, it would be a major step forward IMHO if we had a clear statement and enforced strategy for immutable cubes, coords et al, and...

Ping @dcherian Just thought that I'd make you aware of this PR. It's early days, but you may be able to offer some perspective on this...

@hsteptoe Fancy doing a rebase to resolve these conflicts? :+1:

Without meaning to be blase, but... ~~No need to do this for v2.1, but I'm definitely keen to do it asap.~~ ~~No need to do this for **v2.2**, but I'm...

@rcomer I know :laughing: Given the level of angst on #4486, it would be ideal to perhaps take the hit square on the chin and deprecate/rewrite `iris.util.format_array` in `iris` 3.2....

@jamesp Yup, you can run cron style jobs in cirrus-ci 👍 See https://cirrus-ci.org/guide/writing-tasks/#cron-builds

@rcomer Awesome, thanks 👍 With regards to each of the points you raised: 1. I think that this is completely possible to do. I totally agree on the benefit of...