As we deprecate old v2 functionality and continue to support Zarr features that are not defined in a specification document (like many codecs), I think zarr-python will continue to emit a lot of warnings in the forseeable future. But these warnings are annoying for users who have already been warned, so we should provide a simple way to turn them off.

Two concrete proposals:

• Make all the warnings we emit zarr-flavored, e.g.:

class ZarrFutureWarning(FutureWarning): 
    ...

...
warning.warns('this will change', ZarrFutureWarning)

• Provide some top-level functions for silencing warnings. these would be light wrappers around the built in system for suppressing warnings.