AG2 getting started page

[Michael E. Papka]

Well in my mind they are one in the same there is not one without the other,
so supporting the AG or supporting AGtk is the same thing and we need to get
the community involved in doing so.

It was unclear to me if you are embarrassed that the code has fundamental
problems or that the list is involved in solving them.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Olson [mailto:olson at mcs.anl.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:45 AM
To: papka at mcs.anl.gov; ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: RE: AG2 getting started page


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