Martin Yeo

> Additional note : the split-attributes (cube attributes) description could also be be better linked into the existing documentation. Notably, [here ](https://scitools-iris.readthedocs.io/en/v3.7.0/further_topics/metadata.html#metadata) If you look at the `latest` version of...

This should _I think_ be fine to implement - the `Connectivity` class always has a `start_index` attribute, but defaults to `=0` in line with the UGRID conventions.

This is Read the Docs behaviour, and isn't unique to Iris (e.g. https://docs.xarray.dev/en/stable/search.html?q=dataset). There may be some way to customise ([Server side search](https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/server-side-search/index.html#search-features)). I'm not personally planning to look any...

Thanks for the hard work @schlunma. #5620 will be reviewed by @pp-mo in the new year, so #5658 can get moving again once that is sorted.

Discussed offline with @trexfeathers @pp-mo @hdyson. Something to make clear publicly - our prioritisation is currently driven by: - https://github.com/SciTools/iris/issues/4631 - Significant problems we are aware of - Items escalated...

@cgsandford sorry to hear you're experiencing problems. You're right that Iris' use of cftime datetimes isn't documented, but then again this isn't something that's expected to cause problems in user...

Or perhaps I've misunderstood: >I'm doing analysis rather than plotting And you mean that your problems are specifically with plotting, but this is particularly difficult due to unfamiliarity with plotting?

Thanks for clarifying, @cgsandford. As noted, Iris' default use of cftime datetimes isn't expected to cause issues at the user level, hence this not being documented. If you use Iris'...

@bsherratt has provided a use case when a cftime datetime is definitely NOT appropriate: when working with time-zones (which cftime can't represent). In such cases the preferred method is to...

>I confess that the CI setup here grow both in complexity and size that makes me not want to mess with them. Even more so in a case for an...