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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-786871459,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,786871459,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4Njg3MTQ1OQ==,2448579,2021-02-26T20:16:11Z,2021-02-26T20:16:11Z,MEMBER,Thanks @max-sixty !,"{""total_count"": 2, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 1, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-782931137,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,782931137,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4MjkzMTEzNw==,10194086,2021-02-21T21:37:20Z,2021-02-21T21:37:20Z,MEMBER,Yes that's the one - thanks! ,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-782929644,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,782929644,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4MjkyOTY0NA==,14808389,2021-02-21T21:26:35Z,2021-02-21T21:26:35Z,MEMBER,"> There is a small mis-formatting in ""whats-new""

if you're talking about the versions table: this should be fixed in #4907","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-782327590,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,782327590,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4MjMyNzU5MA==,10194086,2021-02-19T20:34:16Z,2021-02-19T20:34:16Z,MEMBER,"There is a small mis-formatting in ""whats-new"", that would be good to fix: http://xarray.pydata.org/en/latest/whats-new.html","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-780953464,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,780953464,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4MDk1MzQ2NA==,39069044,2021-02-18T00:51:04Z,2021-02-18T00:51:04Z,CONTRIBUTOR,#4849 should be almost ready to go. Would be good for someone else to confirm the API makes sense. Additional features and performance enhancements could be added in later releases as long as the API is acceptable.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-780735665,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,780735665,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4MDczNTY2NQ==,5821660,2021-02-17T17:53:29Z,2021-02-17T17:53:29Z,MEMBER,"> I don't think we will be ready by this week-end and we don't want to rush the switch to the new API without some thorough testing by others. We will wait for the next release.

No worries, @alexamici, as the API can be switched to v2 already, this is no major problem. Better safe than sorry wrt testing. Thank you and your colleagues! ","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-780731411,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,780731411,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4MDczMTQxMQ==,226037,2021-02-17T17:46:46Z,2021-02-17T17:46:46Z,MEMBER,I don't think we will be ready by this week-end and we don't want to rush the switch to the new API without some thorough testing by others. We will wait for the next release.,"{""total_count"": 2, ""+1"": 2, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-780699009,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,780699009,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4MDY5OTAwOQ==,5821660,2021-02-17T16:57:37Z,2021-02-17T16:57:57Z,MEMBER,"> @alexamici can you get the PR in by then?

This would be really great. But if it doesn't fit now, I hope a release will be cut right after finalising backend refactor. This is an eagerly awaited addition. ","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-780692008,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,780692008,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4MDY5MjAwOA==,2448579,2021-02-17T16:47:28Z,2021-02-17T16:47:28Z,MEMBER,"@max-sixty will cut a release this weekend. @alexamici can you get the PR in by then? If not, we can release again! and again! ","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-778774317,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,778774317,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc3ODc3NDMxNw==,14371165,2021-02-14T12:57:27Z,2021-02-14T13:04:23Z,MEMBER,May I suggest #4740 as well. I think it's ready and it helps me quite a bit in my 2k+ data variable use cases.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-778447800,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,778447800,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc3ODQ0NzgwMA==,5635139,2021-02-12T20:50:52Z,2021-02-12T20:50:52Z,MEMBER,"Unless we're really confident that a feature is a few days away, I'd vote to generally proceed with releases. Releases are fairly cheap to do now (and I'm happy to do them), and uncoupling parts of the process lets it move faster.

Ofc if we have regressions, then we should solve those. (I have been under a crunch recently but can hopefully help more in a week or so)","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-778230463,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,778230463,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc3ODIzMDQ2Mw==,2448579,2021-02-12T14:33:01Z,2021-02-12T14:33:17Z,MEMBER,@alexamici no target date AFAIK. it'd be nice to release soon since there are incompatibilities with a few new library versions,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-778060647,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,778060647,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc3ODA2MDY0Nw==,226037,2021-02-12T08:44:55Z,2021-02-12T08:45:23Z,MEMBER,"The new flexible backend API is almost ready #4309 (see PRs with label [`CZI Grant`](https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pulls?q=label%3A%22CZI+Grant%22)) and the plan is for it to become the default backend API for the next major release (cc @shoyer @jhamman)

I'll prepare the PR to move the code in `apiv2.py` to `api.py` soon.

@dcherian do you have a target release date?","{""total_count"": 2, ""+1"": 2, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4894#issuecomment-777503859,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4894,777503859,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc3NzUwMzg1OQ==,6628425,2021-02-11T14:34:11Z,2021-02-11T14:34:11Z,MEMBER,Thanks @dcherian!  I agree those would be good to get in too.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,806436724