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Two of the threads were addressed by #877. The others are related to starting a context in the control layer at import time. Can we instead start these threads the...

Haha, I see three of us pounced in parallel.Thanks for the contribution, @prjemian, and good luck sifting through our feedback. :upside_down_face:

Not seeing this again after ~10 more runs.

Haha, yeah. And along those lines I think providing the `math.inf` escape hatch could be an important part of this.

OK. I'm inclined to let this one sit awhile, maybe until after the next NSLS rollout, just because I'm wary of a bombardment of deprecation warnings (thinking of that `.value`...

I think subclassing would be uncommon. If a constant timeout is good enough then Approach (2) above is fine, i.e. ```py some_motor = EpicsMotor(PV, name=..., timeout=...) ``` It’s only if...

There are one-off implementations of this now at APS 8-ID and NSLS FXI. It seems to work well; we just need the time to do it.

Related to https://github.com/caproto/caproto/issues/539

In #936 we moved testing over, but we still to address documentation.

Per discussion in our Monday meeting, it looks like someone added `num_images` to `stage_sigs` and was confused when the `num_images` was set during staging.