Josh Moore

From a separate discussion with @normanrz, here are some lingering TODOs towards 0.5 post-merge: - [ ] merging - [x] reviewing the status of latest/ - [ ] reverting anything...

See https://github.com/speced/bikeshed/issues/2946 for some of the concerns around bikeshed

As someone of you may have noticed from the large number of commits pushed here, the spec build is currently broken due to an update in the build system (`bikeshed`)....

Few comments: * Thanks to @d-v-b for all the clean up! * On the MUST/SHOULD front ([link](https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-specs/pull/312#issuecomment-2344616137)), it might be good to make sure folks from sign off if it's...

> This PR is deliberately non-normative about the content of the extension codecs. The intention is that the maintenance of the extension codecs should fall to their authors. Agreed but...

A few last points for tonight: > it is simply _not my preference_ To be clear, I'm not talking about you or your preferences specifically anywhere though I value your...

Thanks, @LDeakin, it's a good example of what a developer would realistically want to communicate. I think what I'm struggling with is that there seem to be more classes of...

> The goal of this PR is not to carefully map the space of codecs.... @d-v-b, though I appreciate your immediate goals, since this touches on our shared understanding of...

> we disagree on the content of that recommendation I think it's out of scope for this PR The fact that we disagree means that we will likely be having...

> These questions are important but they are out of scope for this PR. As stated in the text of this PR, an extension codec is any codec that is...