html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7692#issuecomment-1487909969,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7692,1487909969,IC_kwDOAMm_X85Yr7RR,35968931,2023-03-29T03:57:40Z,2023-03-29T03:57:40Z,MEMBER,":+1: to not having to write `to_dataset` before saving things.

I think the `.to_X` vs e.g. `.save(engine='X')` is important enough that we should think about it a bit more. The response to #7496 doesn't seem conclusive to me (yet).

A twitter poll? Then a discussion in a meeting?

","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1644429340
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7692#issuecomment-1487709306,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7692,1487709306,IC_kwDOAMm_X85YrKR6,2443309,2023-03-28T22:58:30Z,2023-03-28T22:58:30Z,MEMBER,"Fair enough. I was extrapolating a bit based on the response to #7496. If someone wants to bite off the writable backends task, I'm all for it.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1644429340
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7692#issuecomment-1487609291,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7692,1487609291,IC_kwDOAMm_X85Yqx3L,14808389,2023-03-28T21:21:47Z,2023-03-28T21:21:47Z,MEMBER,"As far as I understand #5954 and the meeting notes, we didn't decide anything about that yet (I might be wrong, though). So I assume the only reason we don't have write backends and `save_dataset` / `save_dataarray` right now is that nobody got around to doing that yet.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1644429340
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7692#issuecomment-1487524043,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7692,1487524043,IC_kwDOAMm_X85YqdDL,2443309,2023-03-28T20:04:35Z,2023-03-28T20:04:35Z,MEMBER,I was once a fan of the `save_dataset` route but I think we've opted to stick with the format specific `to_` methods. ,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1644429340
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/7692#issuecomment-1487433218,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7692,1487433218,IC_kwDOAMm_X85YqG4C,14808389,2023-03-28T18:44:39Z,2023-03-28T18:44:39Z,MEMBER,"I guess the alternative would be to go with `xr.save_dataset` / `xr.save_dataarray`, but that seems like a lot of work (*and* I agree that since we already have `Dataset.to_zarr` we can also have `DataArray.to_zarr`)
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