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+Waterfall
+=========
+
+Waterfall is a declarative task execution framework. 
+Why Another Execution Framework
+===============================
+
+There are many, many execution frameworks out there that support defining
+tasks with inter-task dependencies. Most of them only partially include
+scheduling in their design.
+
+Overview
+--------
+
+Resources
+=========
+
+Resources are at the heart of Waterfall. They are simple things: labels
+with an associated set of time intervals. Tasks produce resources for
+given intervals.
+
+Tasks
+=====
+
+Tasks are commands that run on a set schedule. Each task produces one or
+more `Resource`. The run schedule naturally breaks up the timeline into
+intervals. When a task runs at time $T_n$, it will make make each resource
+it provides available over the interval $(T_{n-1},T]$.