Martin Yeo

I believe this is one on @tkknight's list for allocating time to fix.

Team discussion: Iris 2.3 is still currently widely used at the UK Met Office, but will be moved onto 2.4 etc. in due course. When this happens, we think that...

> _Corollary usability question to above. Asking here as ~related, and just to seek out "technically im/possible" info to my question below - happy to promote to proper issue if...

@davidSextonWork: fancy taking this on?

I've just been manually re-running some benchmarks, congratulations! ``` before after ratio [f69b93f2] [27422111] - 42.2±7ms 34.7±0.9ms 0.82 load.TimeConstraint.time_time_constraint(20, 'NetCDF') ```

We should consider duplicating the solution in #3283. Is Iris' `array_equal()` still appropriate in the places where it is being used?

@lbdreyer has in the past suggested [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/) as a possible alternative to Google Groups, and @pp-mo recently reviewed how several other dev teams use it - looks quite impressive.

>(and maybe stack overflow?) Note that internal discussions within the main Iris development team have explicitly agreed that we don't have the resource to monitor Stack Overflow, although we would...

Offline discussion: we all share the ambition!

Hi @berndbecker, sorry for the delay on this - it's both difficult and slightly niche! Is it still something you'd be interested in seeing in Iris? If you think others...