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Author: camipacifici

finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/specreduce_pm.md

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ Specreduce Project Manager
 
 ### Project Team
 
-- Kelle Cruz, Camilla Pacifici, Tim Pickering, Clare Shanahan, Erik Tollerud, Kyle Westfall, ...
+Kyle Conroy, Kelle Cruz, Patrick Ogle, Camilla Pacifici, Tim Pickering,
+Clare Shanahan, Erik Tollerud, Kyle Westfall, +?
 
 ### Project Description
 
@@ -15,12 +16,32 @@ and framework of the package.
 
 The Specreduce package currently sees contribution by a few software developers 
 scattered in different places. 
-Unfortunately, the organization is not efficient and the progress is very slow.
+Unfortunately, the organization is not efficient, architectural discussions are rerely
+conclusive, pull requests remain unaddressed for months, and the progress is very slow.
 
 We ask to fund a software engineer to:
 - take the lead on Specreduce architecture, proposing solution and helping clearing road blocks;
 - manage the contribution by other developers in a timely manner.
 
+The majority of the development at the moment is in the hands of Pickering at Steward Observatory and 
+Shanahan and Conroy at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Pacifici is a Project
+Scientist who coordinates the work on the Space Telescope side for the suite of data analysis tools
+developed there. Ogle is a Scientist and spectroscopy expert.
+Tollerud, Conroy, and Pickering have been involved in architectural and framework discussions, 
+but none of them can devote enough time to the project to converge on decision.
+Others...
+
+Here is a list of improvements and new features to be tackled in the future:
+- proper error propagation during spectral extraction,
+- build the remaining infrastructure to support wavelength calibration,
+- build the infrastructure to support flux calibration,
+- include an additional extraction method based on PSF weighting.
+
+The Project Manager we are planning to hire will push the project forward, proposing
+solutions for the architectural challanges, reviewing pull requests, and providing test
+data. They will also contribute significantly to the code and help craft the next set
+of priorities in collaboration with the team.
+
 ### Approximate Budget
 
 Still iterating on this...