Max Rakitin

The docstring was updated via https://github.com/NSLS-II/bluesky/pull/1175/commits/0ac7a7b8cb89d606dbdf36d840626a0ef0e4211d. It's ready for another round of review.

@tacaswell, do you mind to reiterate on your concerns with the implementation here (for short-term usage and to unblock https://github.com/BCDA-APS/apstools/pull/133 to allow the snapshot feature at NSLS-II)?

Attn: @danielballan, @awalter-bnl.

We experienced this issue today while updating `RE.md` in a Jupyter notebook, but when the kernel was restarted, the changes weren't flushed to the disk. When we updated the metadata...

+1 for this. I encountered it some time ago while addressing a question at a beamline. I thought I have documented it, but apparently haven't. We have many suspenders with...

> * Control layer: per-device instantiation time, connection time (time from instantiation to being marked as connected) +1 for that point, I was thinking along these lines. It would also...

Happy 3rd anniversary to this PR! 🎉 @kklmn, @yxrmz, did you make a decision on whether it will be merged or not? Thank you for your consideration.

I thought it's a pair of names from the latest Star Wars 😄

I'll add my 2 cents: we recently used the `.DESC` PV for the description used in CSS, example: https://github.com/NSLS-II-HEX/profile_collection/blob/069a23bd6fd069a0db5fcdc1916b5f30729b759a/startup/03-motors.py#L11-L13. Docs: https://epics.anl.gov/EpicsDocumentation/AppDevManuals/RecordRef/Recordref-6.html. I don't think it's tied to the Motor Record...

Related: https://github.com/bluesky/databroker/pull/478.