Julia Signell

> Is there interest in having a `StaticClient` to perform `ItemSearch` on? This idea of a static catalog search has been discussed a few times #425, #66 and always deemed...

> this causes problems when I try to do simultaneous searches from parallel processes That is a fair point. In the future it might make sense for pystac-client to make...

I just found this issue after working on a NASA deployed jupyterhub instance that is able to access data on s3 without any additional configuration - I can do `xr.open_dataset(,...

Update: I just tried to use distributed with this setup and unsurprisingly the session is not picklable.

Ok just to make sure this comes full circle now that #480 is in (and there should probably be more docs on this). First you try running it naively: ```python...

This looks like the same error that is showing up in #951 (leading me to believe even more firmly that _that_ issue has to do with bad hvplot misunderstanding the...

Having finally circled back to this, I think that in order to raise a more informative error there would need to be a change on the holoviews side.

Oh sorry I mean "not on hvplot" yeah it's more likely that it would happen on geoviews.

Ok I have _thoughts_. For internal usage I think we should import the minimum and from the file where the definition is. So I'd prefer: ```python from pystac.utils import str_to_datetime...

Well it's not "tomorrow", but better late than never :)