In light of @jsick’s proposal for an archival parent category (which I’ve summarized here, thank you), and the feedback from @ljones and @roodman (thank you too!) I have some modified proposals for actions related to the categories.
1. Camera: Thanks for the feedback @roodman. Since the predicted future use of the Camera category is not for Camera team use (e.g., like the Data Management category), but as a place for all Rubin Community members to ask technical questions, it sounds like it should actually become a sub-category of the “Support” category, not of the “Science” category. Thoughts?
2. Simulations: Thanks @ljones for the feedback. Upon further review it seems there are more CatSim topics in Simulations than would be appropriate to merge into “Science - Survey Strategy”, so I have a modified proposal in two parts.
2.1. Move the only two truly new topics in the past two years (titled “MAF: crowding metric in filters other than r?” and “Sims_maf spatial selection in Galactic coordinates”) into the “Science - Survey Strategy” category.
2.2. Move the “Simulations” category to be a sub-category of “Archived Categories”. I’ve reached out to the LSSTC Slack #sims channels for further comment on this.
3. Cross-System Category:
3.1. The “Camera-DM Visualization” subcategory should become a sub-category of “Data Management”.
3.2. The “Calibrations” subcategory should become a “Cross-System Calibrations” subcategory in “Archived Categories”.
3.3. The original “Cross-System” category would then be empty and could be deleted.
4. & 5. Workshops: All past workshops categories would be moved to become subcategories of “Archived Categories”.
Note that moving and archiving (sub-)categories is a reversible process.