Jon Duckworth

cc: @gadomski

@ljstrnadiii Thanks for raising this. I opened #749 to add async I/O operations to the library, which should help with this. > 1. is there a way to consolidate these...

Moving this out of the 1.4.0 release since it does not seem critical

That all makes sense to me. If we're comfortable with Option 3, at least for now, I won't include this in the RC1 milestone. I mostly wanted to make sure...

One possible hiccup to option 3 is the case where we cannot fully migrate fields from a previous extension version into the most recent version. The File Info Extension may...

@TomAugspurger @gjoseph92 Thanks for bringing this up. I can take a look sometime in the next couple of days. I've noticed that issue with slowness in `Link.to_dict` before and I...

Regarding the slow `Link.to_dict` method: That method makes a call to `Item.get_root` [here](https://github.com/stac-utils/pystac/blob/5465979584ec907cf7cc7f2b4f810cbea9b93211/pystac/link.py#L147). If that Item's `root` link has not been resolved, then this results in a network request to...

It sounds like there is pretty broad interest in supporting multiple extension versions within a single version of PySTAC, and I tend to agree that we should not force an...

I'm +1 for closing this and opening a new issue. #617 starts to implement some of the ideas from [#546 (comment)](https://github.com/stac-utils/pystac/issues/546#issuecomment-909203888), but needs some more work.

#663 is included in v1.2.0, but I am leaving this issue open and assigning to a future release milestone so we can continue to explore some of the options outlined...