Matt Savoie

This looks to be updated, and I would like to try to merge it before next week. The items remaining from @TomNicholas [comment](https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/9014#pullrequestreview-2111487817) are addressed but for the benchmark test...

There's not a lot of diffs between this and my #8976 pr. You can see that [here](https://github.com/flamingbear/xarray/pull/12). Looks like I'm now clogging read the docs and can't kill either of...

> @flamingbear What's your RTD username? looks like `msavoie`

~~I killed one so builds should be able to continue, but https://readthedocs.org/projects/xray/builds/24200886/ is being stubborn I tried to cancel it on the old and new dashboards :shrug:~~. it timed out

That's an excellent idea and didn't occur to me...