Ruth Comer

Note that is has also previously been suggested that there is [too much in `iris.util`](https://github.com/SciTools/iris/pull/2343#issuecomment-278589836).

> I do enjoy a good multilevel hierachy, don't you ? 😉 I couldn’t possibly comment 😆 I think it’s fair to say that a lot of functionality is not...

Or we could borrow the time machine from the numpy folks....

> NOTE: I've labelled this for Iris 3.0, because it suggests a serious breaking change. BTW, are we still doing the deprecation thing? https://scitools.org.uk/iris/docs/latest/developers_guide/deprecations.html

> did this issue today introduce a breaking change that link isn't working for me 😕

My reading of this > support at least all minor versions of Python introduced and released in the prior 42 months from the anticipated release date is that we should...

In my mind, `rename` is just a setter for what comes out of `name`. So maybe it would make more sense to formalise that and make `name` a property. So...

That particular call to `is_contiguous` only exists to generate a warning about metadata https://github.com/SciTools/iris/blob/62047f7fa9df9cf817067cb595127f0fc3c2b421/lib/iris/coords.py#L2215-L2222 I have seen this warning many times, and have never found it useful. What happens if...

There has been talk elsewhere (e.g. https://github.com/SciTools/iris/pull/4762#issuecomment-1160295615) of reducing the number of warnings Iris throws. Personally my vote would be to remove this if loop (and the two warnings it...

@schlunma I'd be delighted to merge such a PR, but I don't think I have the authority to decide that by myself. Hopefully someone else from @SciTools/peloton can weigh in....