[Go-essp-tech] ESGF bugs

[Karl Taylor]

[mail troubles; please forgive if you get this twice.]

Dear all,

This morning I said that cosmetic items such as "model CCSM4" as opposed 
to "CCSM4" being listed on the model search menu should not be allowed 
to hold up "going live".  I also said I didn't think many users would 
miss (in the near term) being able to limit their searches to a single 
"institution".  I hope I didn't imply that we shouldn't be concerned 
about this bugs, especially (on further contemplation) since they might 
be symptoms of real problems.  Given that it was said these would be 
difficult to fix, I presume that the developers thought these problems 
are not trivial, and therefore, I would hope that considerable effort be 
devoted to understanding them.  One wonders why the "institution" search 
doesn't work but the others do?  Why do other menus not have the problem 
of inserting an unwanted descriptor (like "model")?  One would think 
that the coding for these things would be somewhat similar, so if in one 
case there is a problem, perhaps there are similar problems (as yet 
unnoticed) in other parts of the system.

So, please don't misinterpret my suggestion that we could live without 
fixing these things as meaning we shouldn't understand these errors 
before going live.

best regards,
Karl

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