Davis Bennett

any chance of movement on this? I don't think there's any value to nullability here. (i'm acutely peeved because I had to write a bunch of `if array.compressor is not...

after discussion in the zarr community meeting, it looks like this aim is easier to accomplish in `zarr-python`, so I'm going to close this and open a new PR in...

> This said - from my understanding, zarr shouldn't even need locks? At which point passing the lock parameter should be invalid. Could somebody more knowledgeable of zarr chime in?...

Isn't this something that could be handled transparently via type annotations? c.f. https://github.com/dask/dask/issues/8853

+1 for integrating type hints with dask. `dask.delayed` seems like an obvious target for this; beyond better integration with the increasingly typed python ecosystem, you could parse function annotations to...

> I'm not 100% sold on "standard_name": "instance_label", because it's really rather non-standard. Coming from https://github.com/ome/napari-ome-zarr/issues/99, I might suggest adding a "type": "continuous" (intensities), "type": "categorical" (semantic segmentation), and optionally...

I'm not an expert in that kind of data, so beyond "not in a zarr array", I can't give very authoritative advice. What I _can_ say is that to me...

to be more specific, I think zarr is _not_ a good choice for storing tabular data, given that much better solutions exist.

For tabular data in general, there are a lot of storage options -- see [all the IO routines associated with a pandas dataframe](https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/io.html?highlight=to_parquet) for a sense of the scope. I'm...

> As an example, consider super-resolution microscopy produces point clouds which can be and almost always are rendered as images. We may want to store the original point data (which...