Martin Yeo

It is clearly a difficult problem to provide flexibility while ensuring a linear commit history. But what about relying on the user to provide arguments resulting in a linear history,...

>I've been having a look to the configuration files of some of the main projects using asv (pandas, xarray, scikit-learn, pymc3, scikit-image...), and I don't see any of them using...

The 'main projects' you mention have a lot of energy behind them, with a lot of very smart people working on them. It might be easy to forget how benchmarking...

>We've got a pandas grant that we're using to help with it, and that won't last long. Ah I hadn't realised it was short-term! Well, if there are features that...

Can I ask: if environment and commit management are removed, what are the remaining reasons to use ASV over [pytest-benchmark](https://github.com/ionelmc/pytest-benchmark/)? I'm sure there are good reasons, but I need educating...

Ticking off one or more boxes would be a good activity for someone new to making Iris contributions. Here's how you can test your changes: [Contributing to the Documentation](https://scitools-iris.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developers_guide/contributing_documentation_full.html#contributing-to-the-documentation)

>Can this PR please also be added as patch releases to both 3.2 and 3.3? The refactoring of the cube string representation code in 3.2 combines with this bug to...

> So the docs build is failing again (see https://readthedocs.org/projects/scitools-iris/builds/ for the latests builds) I restarted the job a couple of times but it's getting the same HDF error. Interestingly...

>This was one of those occasions when I couldn't get a straight rebase to work for me. @pp-mo next time I'm reviewing feel free to merge in the updates instead...

> This situation does now seem to have been ruled out in the [CF conventions](http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.8/cf-conventions.html#cell-boundaries): > > > Boundary variable attributes which determine the coordinate type (units, standard_name, axis and...