<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 13, 2015, at 12:06 AM, Will Dawson <<a href="mailto:will@dawsonresearch.com" class="">will@dawsonresearch.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">— Is there any plan to document the available measurement algorithms, what they are based on, and how to instantiate them?</div><div style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">— Is it helpful having users let you know what types of documentation they would like? I realize the developers are in the thick of code development and documentation might be a task that is being saved for later after things have settled, and documentation requests might be a bother now.</div><div style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">— If documentation requests are useful, then where or to whom should the requests be made?</div><div style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Thanks again,</div><div style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Will </div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Hi Will,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I recently got hired to handle LSST DM's documentation and user outreach. I'll be starting in August.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Needless to say, we know that documentation is sorely lacking, and from a user's perspective, is essentially non-existent. The docs will look entirely differently and will include topical guides/tutorials along with rich API documentation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you want to be a doc tester, or have specific concerns, you can email me or Frossie (but again, I won't start work until August).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Jonathan</div></body></html>