TAPRegExt erratum, Identifiers for Obscore

[Patrick Dowler]

In my opinion, I think that the editor(s) and WD chair+vice-chair should 
be able to add Errata to the end of a document and republish it to the 
repository with the same version number. The date on the title page 
probably has to remain unchanged as that is the date it was recommended, 
so a secondary date might need to be added to the title page of the 
document if/when errata are added/modified.

Errata would never change the text of the document -- only a section at 
the end (after Changes, before References).

Thoughts? I can bring this up at the next TCG telecon to determine a 
path forward, but I don't think this would have any technical hurdles.

Pat

On 12/06/2013 05:54 AM, Mark Taylor wrote:
>> (2) How can I clean up the TAPRegExt example as quickly as possible,
>> >before even more implementors get confused?  Given that this is not
>> >normative text on TAPRegExt's side, could we do some sort of fast
>> >track?  Or can we add an erratum to the document entry page while
>> >matters take their proper way?
> I think this is a wider issue.  There is currently no lightweight
> way of flagging up errata, or more broadly things which shouldn't
> have been written into standards and need some further explanation,
> for IVOA documents.  The only thing you can do is go through the
> whole process of issuing a new version.
>
> It would be nice to have an erratum page associated with each IVOA
> standard.  This could probably just be a wiki page, but should contain
> things which are known to be problematic and possibly workarounds.
> It would serve two purposes: first, act as a list of things that have
> to get fixed in the next version, and second, as a reference for
> implementors etc who are looking at the standard and scratching
> their heads wondering how the text can possibly make sense;
> often such things are known within the relevant VO (sub-)community
> but there's nowhere to record them.
>

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Patrick Dowler
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