Ole Streicher

For the ppc64el tests, I would re-add them when #530 is solved. I also could re-add the "mips" (32 bit big endian) related ones, sinc e this architecture was removed...

One interesting detail here is that it is only the i386 architecture that is failing - others 32 bit archs like ARM or powerpc pass the test.

@roehling astropy-healpix was originally introduced as a BSD-licensed alternative to [healpy](https://github.com/healpy/healpy) (which is GPL); so it IMO makes sense to make sure they both produce the same results. I'd however...

I'd prefer to have a direct contract, as in the years before.

@jdswinbank Thank you; that is find for me.

@kelle Sure, thank you for the reminder. I forgot to look up here when submitting, sorry.

As @astrofrog asked on slack: could I have an extension until 04/24 as well?

One additional comment here: Astronomy packages often face the danger to be abandoned by their authors, or at least seem orphaned for quite a while. Very often, they can however...

@bsipocz > Hmm, that should have been properly deprecated, or was there a mistake made somewhere? In 5.3.4, votable.tree.Table was not marked as deprecated in the source, and also not...

I'll probably just apply the patch VOTable-->TableElement in the test, thank you for the hint. And sorry that this hijacked the discussion topic here. To bring it back on path:...