Martin Yeo

Big thanks @bjlittle!

I am still in favour of establishing a core 'concept' - defining Iris core determines Iris' core dependencies - but I don't think plugins would be worth the hassle. We...

- SciTools/marketing#2

@kaedonkers any thoughts on this? It's OK to not be ~~OK~~ assigned! ♥

Gonna keep this open until the release of 3.8 (#5363), since #5588 should allow users to avoid this problem. Would be good to know if this works in action.

## First steps of investigation The `netcdf4` package represents unmasked data using a masked array with a full array of masks - `[False]` with a shape matching the underlying data...

# Possible approaches ## Convert all inputs of a function, re-convert on output ### Pros - Clear to the developer applying the decorator ### Cons - Non-masked masked arrays can...

I believe #5178 proves that, while there is a case for optimisation in specific cases, there isn't much benefit in a generic way of temporarily un-masking. Happy to open if...

@hdyson this is currently assigned to you, but since we did this your team has gone through some changes. Do you still want this?

@ESadek-MO could we close this and split any remaining work into independent issues?