Josh Moore

Green. Are there any other commits expected from your side, @croth1?

I'll leave @FarzanT and others to say how pressing their need is. Happy to help how I can @croth1 if you'd like to pursue this.

Going back to https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-specs/issues/136#issuecomment-2307410438 (to ZEP or not to ZEP), I think this could potentially use some discussion around whether there is an opportunity to make the consolidated metadata one...

Sorry for the slow response, @TomAugspurger. To be clear lest it not come through here, I'm super excited to have CM going into the spec! > [TomAugspurger](https://github.com/TomAugspurger) commented [3 weeks...

Ok. Bear with me @TomAugspurger, I find myself unfortunately playing bad cop across the repo. First some immediate responses to your points and then I'll take a step back and...

General :100: for thinking through the future-proofing with you guys, so super brief comments for 00:00 CET: > If a breaking change were introduced, an implementation can fail... My gut...

The reason I think we're in this discussion is that as things stand this adds a feature (i.e., if we were under semver a minor release). The two paths I...

> I avoid semver conversations as a matter of course Ha! Probably a good idea, and I don't think it's a natural fit for a spec anyway, but major/minor/patch is...

> I get the feeling that we have wildly different priors on the purpose and scope of this change. :) Not on this change specifically, @TomAugspurger, it's unfortunately more pervasive....

> So, given all that, how do we move forward here? Following https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-specs/pull/312#issuecomment-2408629130, I'm hesitant to try my standard strategy so I'll try to be blunt because it seems I...