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-Time for a coherent plan of attack
-
-Current Issues:
-- There is a lot of redundancy between the managers/coordinators when it comes to basic checks
-- the package seperation kind of makes sense, but it needs to be better fleshed out
-- I need to enforce better seperation of responsibilities. Somewhat unclear when state is being kept centrally in the coordinator for no apparent reason.
-
-Solution:
-- Go through the packages and consolidate
-- Reduce the state we have to keep centrally, push responsibility to the other packages
-
-Plan of attack:
-- Outline core information flow
-- Examine what interfaces are nessecary to make this work
-- Stop looking at the server/reactor as seperate entities
-
-** I need to put the whole docker thing on the back burner for now. It isn't that important when it comes to immediate goals.
-
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+*Time for a coherent plan of attack*
+
+### Current Issues:
+- There is a lot of redundancy between the managers/coordinators when it comes to basic checks
+- the package seperation kind of makes sense, but it needs to be better fleshed out
+- I need to enforce better seperation of responsibilities. Somewhat unclear when state is being kept centrally in the coordinator for no apparent reason.
+
+### Solution:
+- Go through the packages and consolidate
+- Reduce the state we have to keep centrally, push responsibility to the other packages
+
+### Plan of attack:
+- Outline core information flow
+- Examine what interfaces are nessecary to make this work
+- Stop looking at the server/reactor as seperate entities
+
+*I need to put the whole docker thing on the back burner for now. It isn't that important when it comes to immediate goals.*
+
+**12/05**
+#### TODO
+- Cleanup server side config stuff to make it coherent
+- Reflect changes to reactor side startup
+- Boil down interface to address core issues
+- Config outline:
+    1) Startup and load the existing config
+    2) Overwrite any previous settings with the flags
+    3) Intelligently translate config into action
+    4) launch coordinator and start up existing reactor managers
+- is it even important to launch reactor managers? Wont they just be started on connection?
+
+