Now, for that, there was no post. As with the one on 10/3, they seemed to be (over)confident that they had the problem solved (web site and forum, not really a word about the ongoing download issues). This clearly indicates that not only is their monitoring of the system not working, but "communications" and "boots on the ground" at Krembil aren't properly communicating either. Which seems to only exaggerate the overall issue....

Ralf

I’ve always had multiple projects on the go, as projects have gone awol (CPDN, Rosetta, WCG) I’ve added others to fill in. The nett result is that my resources are busy with worthwhile jobs and I’m not climbing the wall when an individual project has problems.

I firmly believe that the people who stepped in to keep this project going when it was in real danger of being canned are doing their damnedest to make it work and it saddens me to see the continuous criticism they are receiving each time they hit a problem - yes, we could wish it was better funded and they could afford to bring in a raft of experts to solve all within a week but the reality is that it is getting better, not getting turned off.

I try not to use vindictive criticism, but constructive criticism. I am thankful Krembil stepped up and took over the project but that does not mean they should be exempt from the volunteers noting the shortcomings. I do realize they have their resource constraints and are trying to operate with limited personnel and funding. I am going to hazard a guess that if they put out the word for experienced infrastructure help, there would be a few who might volunteer their time and expertise to help get this train back on the track.

Cheers

Cyclops,

I think if we're being intellectually honest, a reasonable person would read that e-mail and interpret it as a call to Go Live and green lighting the effort to everybody. The messaging in that e-mail and the messaging in the original post of this thread contradict each other.

I received the email and when I read it I was under the impression that everything was fixed, worked out, and ready to go and in a fully live, production environment available to those who were previously involved as well as new crunchers.

I was under the impression that the only thing left was getting the stats updated, current and would slowly be rolled in and eventually get to be up to date with what each user was at. I was entirely prepared to start accepting new WU's on my PC, where the largest bulk of timely crunching is done at. I was going to wait a few days as I'm very close to getting my first badge at TN-Grid who I'm currently curnching for. My Android tablet continues to get, crunch, and send back WU's at a rate of about 2-4 per day, which is obviously far less than what can be accomplished on my (old) PC.

I'm glad I read the forums tonight. My gut told me I should check here first before I ever switch back to accepting new tasks/wu's from WCG on my PC and I was correct. I have crunched in the past during this "test" time, but I'm done doing that (on my PC) and will continue to stick with TN-Grid and DENIS@Home (whenever they come back).

I'm still all in with WCG, make no mistake about it. My Android device will stick with it during this beta period but my PC will not be switched back until you're 100% ready and fixed. I want it do be doing work with no issues and that count immediately.

To find out the true nature of what you wanted and really meant to communicate in the email is a bit disappointing to say the least. I really do not see how you or anyone involved could have possibly thought that anyone wouldn't come to the same conclusions I did by what was sent.