IVOA XML Schema Versioning Policies

[Andreas Wicenec]

Hi all,

just wanted to ingest some thoughts here, which we had put together a number of years ago for ALMA.
Maybe you’ll find it useful.

Cheers,
Andreas

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On 31 Oct 2015, at 9:29, Brian Major <major.brian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear IVOA,
> 
> With many thanks to Paul Harrison, I'm pleased to announce the IVOA technical note XML Schema Versioning Policies.
> 
> http://ivoa.net/documents/Notes/XMLVers/index.html
> 
> Here is the abstract:
> 
> This note describes the recommended practice for the evolution of IVOA standard XML schemata that are associated with IVOA standards. The criteria for deciding what might be considered major and minor changes and the policies for dealing with each case are described.
> 
> Regards,
> Brian
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brian Major
> 
> Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
> Centre canadien de données astronomiques
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