I try to stay positive. After all, this is volunteer work. I don't have to participate if I don't feel like it. Most of my machines are shut down with just a skeleton crew running, just to stay abreast of any developments. If I run out of WCG items I let a few Denis units in. I do agree this whole transition could have and should have gone a whale of a lot smoother. I feel bad that the scientists are not getting the throughput they should be getting. I am also seriously disappointed with the communication issue. They should be doing so much better. But, when they finally do get up and running full speed, I will still be here participating in the projects which I deem worthy of my computers' time and my pocketbook for electricity.
Once things are back to full speed, I would like the scientists to at least acknowledge the contribution of the volunteers, not so much for me, but for those who periodically need a pat on the back for their participation.
Cheers

wildhagen:
What, according to you, is the most basic of issues?

If you mean the networking issue, this wasn't fixed. It seemed like it was fixed, but that was only the result of halting distributing new ARP1-workunits. As soon as distribution of new ARP-work started again, the networking issue reappeared.

So that was an issue that hasn't been fixed. You speak of issues that were previously fixed. Which other issues can you name that were previously fixed? Can you name one?

This is like being in a verbally abusive relationship where the victim keeps telling themself that things will get better and the abuse will stop. But things rarely get better and it usually doesn't stop.

I had decided back in February that it was unlikely I'd return to WCG. A two month outage does not inspire confidence in their ability to competently operate the platform. A two week outage would have been concerning. Now we are over six months in with disappointingly little progress and their communication is still very infrequent and not very forthcoming. This is inexcusable.

I'm still waiting for an explanation as to why Krembil didn't start building their system a year ago after the migration away from IBM was first announced. The new Krembil system could have been built and internally tested while IBM continued to host WCG. Then when ready, IBM could suspend operations and the latest data could have been copied over and the new system could cut over and go live for external testing.

I was only a few years of runtime away from earning my 50 year MCM badge. It's disappointing I will never be able to finish that off unless Krembil turns WCG over to someone with the resources to properly operate it. But there are plenty of other projects to donate computing power to.

I've been getting continuous WUs for over a week now, from OPN, ARP, and MCM.

Today I have had re-sends only, mostly from "No-Relpy", no new units.
Probably the same since about the 3rd.

WUProp shows lower numbers than recently, very low for OPNG.
https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/active_projects.py

Paul.