I've prepared a PR at #316. It mostly contains @JonathanGregory's wording with 
two small changes identified by separate commits. Feel free to comment on the 
proposed wording.

I wasn't entirely sure about how to handle the remaining things of the release 
checklist, namely:
* Authors updated in cf-conventions.adoc?
* Next version in cf-conventions.adoc up to date? Versioning inspired by SemVer.
* Conformance document up-to-date?

Can you provide me some assistance on how this should be done?

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@taylor13 I agree with your suggestions and hope that the current PR is 
sufficient in **not** naming those things.

@chris-little I also fully agree that leap seconds should not be ignored, and 
indeed I have use cases where I really want to represent times within those 
leap seconds. However an even bigger problem is that I want to unambiguously 
specify at least **most** of the date-times. Currently there's obviously 
**some** way people handle the conversion of time values into date-times, but 
it is not written down, so datasets which might cross leap seconds are 
ambiguous.
I'll try to put effort in advancing a method of properly handling those missing 
leap seconds in the future, but I honestly think that that should be the second 
step and I like doing things step by step.

Regarding this issue, I only see two options to treat the importance of leap 
seconds:
* [ ] add another note to the conventions that leap seconds are really 
important, but still can't be represented at the moment
* [ ] don't do that and instead think more about forwarding #148 or the like

I strongly favor the second option.

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And thank you all again for being so positive about this thing 🎉 

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