AG2 getting started page

[Robert Olson]

I'm not talking about supporting the AG, but the AGtk software release. We 
*have* to support it at some level or it won't be usable.

I find it a little embarassing, frankly, to have such fundamental problems 
that people have be sent to the mailing list as a whole.

--bob

At 09:34 AM 7/8/2003 -0500, Michael E. Papka wrote:
>Bob,
>
>I don't see this as bad, for two reasons. One, this is not uncommon, Kitware
>encourages folks downloading VTK to subscribe to vtk list, there may be
>issue with names of lists but that's a different story. Two, we receive
>absolutely no funds to support the AG, so by getting folks on a public list
>with questions others can help answer them, I've seen Shawn and Jennifer
>answering questions which is good.
>
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf
>Of Robert Olson
>Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 7:04 AM
>To: ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
>Subject: AG2 getting started page
>
>
>I was just reading this, the Users->Getting Started page, which is the same
>as the developers' getting started page.
>
>http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/index.html
>
> >Getting Started
> >
> >Outlined here are the instructions for getting started developing
> >software
> >related to the Access Grid. If you experience any difficulty with this
> >process please send email to the AG-Tech mailing list so that we can
> >address the problems.
> >
> >Get on the AG Tech mailing list.
> >Get the pre-requisite software installed.
>
>I think there are a couple problems here.  We shouldn't be encouraging
>people subscribe to ag-tech just to use the software (ag-users would be
>more appropriate if anything), and it sounds like we're making ag-tech the
>pathway to technical support, not a local MCS/AG developers' address. (I'd
>been wondering why people kept writing to ag-tech with startup problems..)
>
>--bob