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Working on astrometry for LATISS.
Slow/frustrating progress.
Lack of completely-blind matching functionality in the stack has been an issue.
Achieved a good match on a sample image by tweaking parameters by hand to get it close enough for the matcher to pick it up...
...but these same parameters don't help on every image, and there seems to be an infinite variety of flips, rotations, etc applied with no obvious order.
In some cases, even when it looks ok by eye, the matcher isn't getting a good result.
Merlin will try some further experiments, and will call on others (notable Chris M.) for help if necessary.

Participated in DES virtual meeting, and submitted a proposal for a workshop on systemic racism at the 2021 PCW.
Has been working on “the Pierres'” code (DM-20070).
- This is a big job; lots of code and preparing test data.
- We agreed that Andrés should get some minimal implementation out for review ASAP to give a preliminary check to the approach and to minimize the ultimate burden which will be placed on reviewers.

DM-21212 (Update existing cp_pipe tasks to pipelineTasks) outstanding issues resolved.
- Now cleaning up remaining review comments.
- Hope to have it done this week.
DM-23983 crosstalk for DECam G3 rewrite in a similar position.
Next: plan to get ci_cpp into a state that everybody can start using it, and RFC its inclusion in CI.
Then: rewrite BF tasks in new calibration framework.