To start getting on the same page with regards to butler, with focus on what butler really is, what it does, what its roles are, what APIs is has, and most importantly what it will and will not do in the future.
Discussion items
It'd be great if each team could cover features you think you "must have" in butler that are not available today, and features that would be nice-to-have but are not critical.
Time
Item
Who
Notes
5min
Intro
K-T or NateP or Jacek
10min
UW
Easily specify new outputs from tasks (no need to edit obs_ packages)
Simplify the way IDs are normalized (?), and document the system better; also preferably make it easier to know when you have an ID that has been normalized or not.
Handling of bitemporal calibration products including camera descriptions. N.b. calibration products can be lots of different things: objects, images, telemetry data, sky model, etc.
Tim Jenness : I feel strongly that we should have two persistable file format options designed in to the butler (FITS and HDF5 say) so that we can be sure we have a flexible design that is not wedded to a single file format.
(not butler work, has an AFW component tag)
