Can you please confirm whether you have paused the defective OPNG WUs or ALL WUs?

I am out of work reporting no tasks available.

Thanks for checking with the techs. The only WUs I've gotten in about four hours are ~10 MCM resends, nothing new.

Is there any word on the major incident that happened starting last week that took all systems down (WCG BOINC, WCG website, WCG forums) even before the planned maintenance period?

It's not safe that all of those systems tend to go down at the exact same time since they should (ideally) be pretty isolated from one another.

I tried checking Twitter for updates, but apparently Twitter requires an account to even see public posts now, which is inconvenient. I block Facebook in NoScript for privacy reasons but used another web browser to check WCG on Facebook, and there weren't any updates. Just a lot of people really frustrated at the lack of communication for 4-5 days and then one troll/disturbed person fighting a lot of people. It was a big turn-off.

I've worked in IT for quite a few years, and any time a Sev 1 ("Severity" aka Priority 1) major incident happens, there are always Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to be met and people are paged out 24/7 to fix the incident and provide updates and documentation to both management and any stakeholders (executives and customers affected). Even if I was busy and stressed figuring out an issue, I still had to at least update everyone on what on earth was happening and what we are presently doing to fix it and a rough ETA if we had one. If I ghosted end users for hours let alone 4-5 days, I'd be fired.

Edited to Add: I'm understanding that because WCG doesn't have financial resources to support the staffing levels it needs (like a small team), it's comparing apples to oranges. I think we understand that and empathize with the workload. And to be fair, while we volunteers do contribute lots of expensive, free computing resources, it's not the same as a revenue-generating corporation or government where downtime immediately affects the bottom line of the organization. I think the biggest frustration is just lack of communication and updates, which doesn't take lots of $$$ at all.

So, any news on those disappearing MCM workunits?

Hi thunder7,

An MCM1 work unit update was just posted.