[MITgcm-devel] Re: today testing

[marshall-admin at techsquare.com]

hello ed-

let's pretend that i'm the winner. 
maybe we could schedule some time for
this next week, and i'll throw in 
the beer...

any days better or worse for you ? 
i am full-up until wednesday...

[greg]


> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:12:28 -0400
> From: Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com>
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> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:42:16 -0400 (EDT) marshall-admin at techsquare.com
> wrote:
> 
> > hello ed-
> > 
> > can you send mail next time ? 
> > turns out that all the nfs mounts
> > at forge were gone, which would 
> > explain this. 
> > 
> > this will become even more important
> > the longer you are absent from mit,
> > as things do change (however slowly).
> > 
> > thanks, and can you remove the substitute
> > munpack now too ? 
> 
> 
> Hi Greg, Chris, etc.
> 
> I put the "substitute" munpack in:
> 
>   ~edhill/local/bin/munpack
> 
> and then modified the script (called hourly from edhill's cron on
> forge) that does the unpacking so that it uses that one instead of
> /usr/local/bin/munpack.  Thats all.  Its *not* an actual system
> install.
> 
> And, yes, I *totally* agree that things will change and that the test
> bits need to have someone looking over them.  They can run smoothly
> with no help for weeks or they can die suddenly when an NFS mount
> fails, etc.  They just need a little love occasionally.
> 
> So the real fix here is for someone new to take over ownership of the
> testing scripts.  Why don't you folks (esp. Chris) find that "lucky
> someone" and then have them contact me and I'll help him/her make the
> process as painless as possible.  And, honestly, it won't be too hard.
> The scripts are currently tied to my account and email address on
> forge ("edhill at mitgcm.org") but it'll easy enough to make some small
> edits so that they'll use a new account (and associated email address)
> that could even be a completely neutral "role" account such as
> "testing at mitgcm.org" or similar.
> 
> Ed
> 
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