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Unfortunately, this use case, 1.78, and, to some extent, 1.8 9 are merging and supplanting the carefully-thought-out plans for 1.4 (see LDM-482). It seems that users are being encouraged to use the LSP and Science Pipelines code to experiment with the available precursor datasets or any data that a user brings in on a near-permanent basis. To the extent that the "Stack Club" was actually satisfying 1.89, this was acceptable, but now accounts have been offered to O(100) users, apparently with the expectation that not only their data but also their access to compute resources will continue indefinitely (and, implicitly, with significant stability and support). None of this was budgeted, and it is not clear that it is necessary several years in advance of the availability of data products.
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