Chapter 1. Introduction

HSpot is a huge and increasingly complex piece of code that has seen constant increases in functionality. It has gone through extensive testing on Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. We believe that all of the major and many of the minor bugs that are under our control have been located. Where we are aware of a significant problem that has not yet been fixed it is listed below.

As Herschel has moved over to operations and HSpot is being used by astronomers in increasingly complex ways it is natural that the number of issues reported should increase. Please note though that, in most cases, the average user will not even be aware of the problem and the impact on HSpot use will be small. Normally the problem is a minor irritation to the user that can be worked around, rather than anything serious.

The problems are divided into HSpot issues and proposal handling issues. Within each, they are sub-divided into sections for ease of search.