VOUnits errata-ettes

[Norman Gray]

Greetings, all.

On 2014 Oct 23, at 17:13, Norman Gray <norman at astro.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

> I was pointed towards an astropy units discussion <https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/1911> which mentioned the VOUnits work, and in passing noticed a couple of very minor problems with the document, listed below.  I plan to fix these in the repository, so that they'll appear in any future release of the document.  None such is planned, but perhaps this would be another potential outing for the new errata process.

I've created a page <http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOUnitsNext>, which starts:

> There are no current plans to develop the VOUnits specification. However this page collects a few minor errata and suggestions for future work, which can be addressed if such plans do eventually emerge.

I've also tidied up the links to the VOUnit work on the Semantics wiki page: http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaSemantics 

That said, I'll continue to update the code at the Unity library <https://bitbucket.org/nxg/unity> whenever it seems appropriate.  Version 1.0 of that library corresponds to v1.0 of the VOUnits REC, but I don't necessarily plan to keep the versions in sync permanently.  There's an issues list there <https://bitbucket.org/nxg/unity/issues> which is be specific to the library rather than being issues with the IVOA spec.

I think we can now consider the VOUnits work officially 'put to bed'.

All the best,

Norman


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