My First Foray into the Butler Repository

My first week of the coding period is in the books! I started with what I thought would be a simple task: creating a Butler repository from some demo data. I quickly learned that "simple" and "LSST" rarely belong in the same sentence. 


The demo data has its own peculiar structure, and I had to wrap my head around instrument registration and setting up collections. My terminal is now a historical record of my many failed butler create and butler register-instrument attempts. But, after a lot of trial and error, I finally have a working repository! In a project this massive, these small wins feel absolutely huge.


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