<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Yes, indeed. We also have a long list of changes we want to make in the user guide; some of these are in bugzilla; others are in private notes we need to turn into doc bugs.<div><br></div><div>Ben's initial Users Guide has served us well, but now its time for some major (but incremental) revamping.</div><div><br></div><div>Some of the material from the ParCo paper can go into the Users Guide.</div><div><br></div><div>Also:</div><div>- more thorough explanation of the basic data and execution model</div><div>- more clear explanation of mapping (ParCo has some of that) with more examples and explanations of techniques</div><div>- improved diagrams of the runtime environment</div><div>- more explanation of runtime environment issues like retry and replication (beyond whats in the properties descriptions)</div><div>- lots of clarification needed on Coasters and providers in general</div><div>- section on script development and debugging</div><div>- annotated examples (can start with ParCo examples; need some simpler ones too)</div><div><br></div><div>In general - much work ahead of us here.</div><div><br></div><div>- Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;">We need someone new to go through this... Perhaps we could ask Lorenzo to do this?<div><br></div><div>Just skimming...</div><div><br></div><div>I think the table is 2.11 should only have one operator in each row<div><br></div><div>I'm unclear about the first table in 3.1. perhaps there should be some code or text before it?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 4, 2011, at 3:58 PM, David Kelly wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote>Hello,<div><br></div><div>I just finished the preliminary version of the user guide in asciidoc. It is at <a href="http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~davidk/userguide.html" target="_blank">http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~davidk/userguide.html</a>. The asciidoc source is at <a href="http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~davidk/userguide.txt" target="_blank">http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~davidk/userguide.txt</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div>
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