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 Known Issues
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-1. While hRaven stores the full data available from job history logs, the rolled-up statistics in the `Flow` class only represent data from sucessful task attempts.  We plan to extend this so that the `Flow` class also reflects resources used by failed and killed task attempts.
+1. While hRaven stores the full data available from job history logs, the rolled-up statistics in the `Flow` class only represent data from successful task attempts.  We plan to extend this so that the `Flow` class also reflects resources used by failed and killed task attempts.
 
 Copyright and License
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