<html><head><base href="x-msg://17/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Stephen, I implemented the patch at JPL.<div>Luca</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 17, 2011, at 10:19 AM, <<a href="mailto:stephen.pascoe@stfc.ac.uk">stephen.pascoe@stfc.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I have been evaluating how to moving forward as quickly as possible on this. In my view creating a web-form in the gateways will take resources from NCAR code emailing the form content to cmip5-helpdesk. It will require server-side code so is likely to be part of NCAR's Gateway release schedule.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">In the mean time we need to get to a stage where users directly email cmip5-helpdesk and provide a few vital pieces of information as quickly as possible. Therefore I suggest patching the "contactus.jsp" file in operational gateways so that they show something like what is live at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cmip-gw.badc.rl.ac.uk/contactus/contact-us.htm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://cmip-gw.badc.rl.ac.uk/contactus/contact-us.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I have attached a patch file for Gateway Administrators. Just implementing this alone will greatly reduce the time taken processing CMIP5-helpdesk.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Stephen<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">---<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Stephen Pascoe +44 (0)1235 445980<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Centre of Environmental Data Archival<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: windowtext; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: windowtext; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Juckes, Martin (STFC,RAL,RALSP)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>17 August 2011 16:56<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'Estanislao Gonzalez'; Pascoe, Stephen (STFC,RAL,RALSP);<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:don@ucar.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">don@ucar.edu</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:taylor13@llnl.gov" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">taylor13@llnl.gov</a><br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:go-essp-tech@ucar.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">go-essp-tech@ucar.edu</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esg-gateway-dev@earthsystemgrid.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">esg-gateway-dev@earthsystemgrid.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esg-node-dev@lists.llnl.gov" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">esg-node-dev@lists.llnl.gov</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: [Go-essp-tech] [esg-node-dev] Re: A CMIP5 FAQ Application<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Hi Estani, Stephen, Don, Karl,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Relevant views, but I’m afraid I’m not convinced by the need for or usefulness of an open system.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Our CMIP5 footprints site shows 7 queries waiting for a response, which is not bad. I understand from Stephen that there may be a back-log of getting queries into the system and we clearly need to improve that part of the process. We need to use the human resources we have more effectively, and using the query management to distribute responsibility for answering queries is part of that.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">One thing that will greatly help is ensuring that we know where users are coming from when they submit a queries referring to “your web site” – the only way we can do this is with a form which automatically includes the gateway in use and the URL of the referring page (i.e. the page from which the users accessed the query submission form). This should be a fairly minor piece of work. The form should submit queries straight into the query tracking system.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">The advantage of footprints over stackoverflow is that we have it configured to track queries and ensure that all queries are promptly answered. It can also provide a FAQ site (see<a href="https://footprints.badc.rl.ac.uk/cmip5_FAQ.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">https://footprints.badc.rl.ac.uk/cmip5_FAQ.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>), with a nice facility to copy FAQ into responses to users and create FAQ solutions from responses to users. The system also allows you to specify templates and standard explanatory texts to save repeatedly creating background information for common topics.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">We need to turn this into an operational system – and that requires an agreement on how to staff the system. I think we should be putting all queries directly into the footprints system by providing users with the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:cmip5-helpdesk@stfc.ac.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">cmip5-helpdesk@stfc.ac.uk</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>address and then improve on this by providing a form for them to submit queries with.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Karl, Don: if we do this, will you be able to allocate staff to work through a suitable portion of the queries? I imagine we will have to provide some more guidance on how to use the system to make this work smoothly.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Martin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 4pt; "><div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: windowtext; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: windowtext; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Estanislao Gonzalez [mailto:gonzalez@dkrz.de]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>16 August 2011 12:44<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pascoe, Stephen (STFC,RAL,RALSP)<br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Juckes, Martin (STFC,RAL,RALSP);<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:don@ucar.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">don@ucar.edu</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:taylor13@llnl.gov" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">taylor13@llnl.gov</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:go-essp-tech@ucar.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">go-essp-tech@ucar.edu</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esg-gateway-dev@earthsystemgrid.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">esg-gateway-dev@earthsystemgrid.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esg-node-dev@lists.llnl.gov" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">esg-node-dev@lists.llnl.gov</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Go-essp-tech] [esg-node-dev] Re: A CMIP5 FAQ Application<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Hi,<br><br>It's probably not relevant to cast my vote here, but I completely agree with Stephen.<br><br>To put it short, I just can't do much more than what I'm doing now, and that's far from what's required. I'm pretty sure that's the case for all of you too. So we are suffering from human resources shortage, and the help desk will be suffering the most.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>I think the open FAQ system is a valid try, we can always shut it down if it proves to cause more pain that what's solving. But the truth is, we are lagging behind in terms of usage, especially in user help, and we just don't have the required men power to catch up.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Either we count on some tools and people (even the users) to help us along, or we start thinking in a Plan B ASAP. This won't get solved by itself, and we are just barely starting.<br><br>My 2c anyways,<br>Estani<br><br>Am 16.08.2011 11:43, schrieb<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:stephen.pascoe@stfc.ac.uk:" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">stephen.pascoe@stfc.ac.uk:</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Hi Martin,</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">> The problem with tagging users or labelling their contributions as spam is that you may get letters from their lawyers, so I would start out with a</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">> system we know how to control – there will be enough chaos if we just open it to contributions from the 40 or so groups who are running</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">> models or data nodes.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">My fear is that the alternative to not having a system like this is that communication within the CMIP5 science and data management community will remain poor. I understand where you are coming from, because I occasionally follow the climate-debate blogosphere, but I think we should run with this system and see where it works for us where it doesn't. I think we have no hope of designing a system up-front that does the job nearly as well.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I believe the application has the power to control what content is placed on it. At the moment it's configured to be very open but cmip5-help can give permissions to users based on their reputation score. For instance your post is moderated if your score is below a certain value. Similarly we can set the reputation required to answer/comment/vote/flag/etc. Once a question is accepted it can be flagged as "misleading", "not-relevant", "inappropriate" or anything you want to configure. Questions can be closed as "Duplicate", "off-topic", "too subjective and argumentative", "outdated". Anything that we need that it can't do could be developed (we have the code) but we won't know we need it until we have used it for a while.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">> We want to have some system for keeping the content up to date -- perhaps this could be done by tagging answers which are specific to a</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">> current software version with that version (e.g. “Gateway 1.2.x”) and then reviewing them as older versions are, hopefully, eliminated from the</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">> operational federation,</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">In the end this tool would be *<b>part of</b>* our procedures for communication and issue tracking. Someone would have to make sure answers are accurately tagged (maybe with software versions) and answered if relevant. Closing questions that are out of date, flagging them, etc. etc.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Stephen.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">---</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Stephen Pascoe +44 (0)1235 445980</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Centre of Environmental Data Archival</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK</span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Juckes, Martin (STFC,RAL,RALSP)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>16 August 2011 10:01<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pascoe, Stephen (STFC,RAL,RALSP); 'Don Middleton'; Karl Taylor<br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:go-essp-tech@ucar.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">go-essp-tech@ucar.edu</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esg-gateway-dev@earthsystemgrid.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">esg-gateway-dev@earthsystemgrid.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esg-node-dev@lists.llnl.gov" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">esg-node-dev@lists.llnl.gov</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: [Go-essp-tech] [esg-node-dev] Re: A CMIP5 FAQ Application</span><o:p></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Hi Stephen,</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">The problem with tagging users or labelling their contributions as spam is that you may get letters from their lawyers, so I would start out with a system we know how to control – there will be enough chaos if we just open it to contributions from the 40 or so groups who are running models or data nodes.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">We want to have some system for keeping the content up to date -- perhaps this could be done by tagging answers which are specific to a current software version with that version (e.g. “Gateway 1.2.x”) and then reviewing them as older versions are, hopefully, eliminated from the operational federation,</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Cheers,</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Martin</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 4pt; "><div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pascoe, Stephen (STFC,RAL,RALSP)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>16 August 2011 09:49<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Juckes, Martin (STFC,RAL,RALSP); 'Don Middleton'; Karl Taylor<br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:go-essp-tech@ucar.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">go-essp-tech@ucar.edu</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esg-gateway-dev@earthsystemgrid.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">esg-gateway-dev@earthsystemgrid.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esg-node-dev@lists.llnl.gov" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">esg-node-dev@lists.llnl.gov</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: [Go-essp-tech] [esg-node-dev] Re: A CMIP5 FAQ Application</span><o:p></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I'm confident the software could be configured to require a login to ask a question and we could constrain logins to those with ESGF OpenIDs. However I would put this in the category of "premature optimisation". If we get spurious questions we can tag them as "spam" down-vote them or even delete them. Users can be given a bad reputation score or you can even ban users.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">The system is designed to be open and, to some extent, chaotic. This encourages people to get involved whilst allowing the community to assign value to users, questions and answers. Therefore there isn't a workflow as such like you get in a bug tracker. If we want that we should link questions to bug tracker tickets so that closing a ticket triggers updating the question. However, I believe too much process could get in the way here.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I'm not thinking the questions I bootstrapped the system with will be typical -- they are just what was in my mind at the time.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Stephen.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">---</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Stephen Pascoe +44 (0)1235 445980</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Centre of Environmental Data Archival</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK</span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Juckes, Martin (STFC,RAL,RALSP)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>16 August 2011 09:33<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'Don Middleton'; Karl Taylor; Pascoe, Stephen (STFC,RAL,RALSP)<br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:go-essp-tech@ucar.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">go-essp-tech@ucar.edu</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esg-gateway-dev@earthsystemgrid.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">esg-gateway-dev@earthsystemgrid.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esg-node-dev@lists.llnl.gov" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">esg-node-dev@lists.llnl.gov</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: [Go-essp-tech] [esg-node-dev] Re: A CMIP5 FAQ Application</span><o:p></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Hello All,</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">On the FAQ issue – I think we do need an FAQ system that many people can contribute to, but I’d be worried about using an open one. At the moment we are dealing with a handful of developers, but we will have thousands of people looking at the data soon. One web sites work well in co-operative communities, but I think we would be flooded with superficial comments claiming to show that the data is worthless. On the other hand, as Stephen says, there is a clear need for something of this kind to allow us to gather the answers which we are all providing to users.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">As Karl says, there is also a need to make the system work better. I notice that some of the answers in the mock-up Stephen has created refer to known bugs which are being worked on – and will presumably be fixed at some point. When we have thousands of questions and answers referring to known bugs, will there be a way of systematically ensuring that answers are updated when bugs are fixed?</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Can we use the “stackoverflow” system and configure it so that only a restricted (but large) group of people can contribute?</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Cheers,</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Martin</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 4pt; "><div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:go-essp-tech-bounces@ucar.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">go-essp-tech-bounces@ucar.edu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:[mailto:go-essp-tech-bounces@ucar.edu]" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">[mailto:go-essp-tech-bounces@ucar.edu]</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Don Middleton<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>16 August 2011 00:27<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Karl Taylor<br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:go-essp-tech@ucar.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">go-essp-tech@ucar.edu</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esg-gateway-dev@earthsystemgrid.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">esg-gateway-dev@earthsystemgrid.org</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:esg-node-dev@lists.llnl.gov" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">esg-node-dev@lists.llnl.gov</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Go-essp-tech] [esg-node-dev] Re: A CMIP5 FAQ Application</span><o:p></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Hi again, Karl - catching up on email pileup after a bit of vacation. First of all, I really like what Stephen has put together for collaboratively addressing user problems, and think this could help us quite a lot. I personally like using environments like this when dealing with app software problems.<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">I think there's pretty good agreement that #1 below is a primary problem area. Getting consistent deployments is expected to help some, so the sooner you can upgrade to 1.3.1, the better. The attribute service being down may have been another issue here. Site configuration can be a problem as well. The problem with users hitting something that looked like dual registration interfaces involved several issues. The work is pretty much done on improving that a lot, and that's in 1.3.2 which we'll post more on shortly.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Regarding #2, the community SOLR-search preview and now the 2.0 alpha are expected to solve many problems that have plagued us for quite some time. The sooner that folks can deploy that, the better for testing and soon making things better for our users.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">cheers - don<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">On Aug 4, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Karl Taylor wrote:<o:p></o:p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Hi all,<br><br>I agree with Stephen that our ability to quickly respond to the increasing number of requests seems likely to become overwhelmed. My cursory impression is, however, that the most common problems reported will be difficult for the user community to respond to; they seem to be associated with flaws in ESG and/or gateway hardware. Am I correct that most frequent queries to the help desk are related to:<br><br>1. getting error messages, no response, or incorrect notice that a user doesn't have the proper permission to successfully download data<br><br>2. having problems finding data using the search capability (because sometimes this fails to return all datasets that it should).<br><br>I think NCAR is making progress on the search problems (2 above), but I'm not sure anyone understands whether there are bugs or just confusion that's causing all the problems listed in 1 above. Perhaps along with thinking about alternatives to the current help desk, immediate attention needs to be paid to reducing the real problems encountered by the user by modifying the ESG software, possibly modifying the ESG user interface, so users won't be so easily confused.<br><br>The first step might be to try to confirm that 1 above is causing most of the problems and to pin down exactly why the problems are being encountered. I think someone with a bit more complete technical understanding of ESG should be able to find the common issues that are being raised and suggest ways they might be addressed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Best regards,<br>Karl<br><br><br>On 8/4/11 7:55 AM,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:stephen.pascoe@stfc.ac.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">stephen.pascoe@stfc.ac.uk</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">I am increasingly convinced that the CMIP5 HelpDesk isn't scaling to the number of queries we are getting and definitely won't scale as CMIP5 gets more use. This is partly our fault at BADC for not managing to open up the HelpDesk sufficiently to make it easy for ESGF developers to contribute. This will improve in the near future (honest!) but I still think we need a more agile way to communicate with CMIP5 users.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Therefore I want to float an alternative solution. A community-driven, interactive FAQ in the style of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://stackoverflow.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">stackoverflow.com</a>. The idea is that users, administrators and developers can collaborate on asking and answering questions in an open forum. There is a reputation system and a mechanism for voting for answers/questions which enables common questions and good answers to be highlighted. There is also a tagging system for classification.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">I have created a prototype service with a few questions in it at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://esg-dev1.badc.rl.ac.uk/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://esg-dev1.badc.rl.ac.uk/</a>. Please take a look and give me some feedback. Even better create an account and start asking and answering questions. I have deliberately answered only some of the questions to encourage people to get involved. If you don't like my answer add another one or comment on mine.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">If this appears to work for us the site can be moved to a production server easily without losing the questions. We could then link to it from the "Contact Us" page in the gateways and ask people to email cmip5-helpdesk only for questions they don't want to share with the community. I would like to discuss this at the ESGF telco on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">One note. You can use ESGF OpenIDs to create an account but CEDA OpenIDs don't work right now. I need to get Phil to fix that.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Stephen.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; ">---</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; 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