Dear "ldm-users" member,
The time has come to investigate improving the way the LDM is supported.
These improvements are motivated by recent developments:
1. There are now several "users" of the LDM that do not use the
Internet Data Distribution (IDD) system. Consequently, typical
messages like "Host XXX is going off-line. Please fail-over" will
NEVER interest them -- and yet they need someplace to discuss the
LDM. These "users" currently include Spain, Australia, NWS, and
NASA -- and their number is expected to grow.
2. I've put the LDM project under a locally-installed GForge
project-management system (see http://www.gforge.org for
information on GForge). This will (hopefully) increase my
productivity (or at least help me remember stuff :-).
Consequently, I would appreciate it if you would
1. CONTINUE TO USE the "ldm-users" mailing-list for IDD-related
messages. This will minimize any disruption for the majority of
postings to that mailing-list.
2. Start using the features of the LDM GForge-site for "pure"
LDM-related stuff that has nothing to do with the IDD system
(instead of posting to the "ldm-users" mailing-list). Useful,
user-oriented features of the GForge-site include the following:
* A general-purpose "user" forum that you can automatically
monitor. You do NOT need to register with the GForge system
in order to post a message.
* A "news" forum that you can automatically monitor.
Announcements of new releases will be posted here. You can
post comments on news articles.
* Tracked and searchable bug-reports.
* Tracked and searchable support-requests.
* Tracked and searchable feature-requests.
* A download-area that can be automatically monitored.
You can get to the LDM GForge-site via the URL
http://gforge.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/ldm
or by following links on the "my.unidata" site:
http://my.unidata.ucar.edu -> Software -> LDM -> Project GForge-Site
The purpose of these changes is to investigate potential improvments to
LDM support. If these changes don't work out, then we'll revert.
Regards,
Steve Emmerson
LDM Developer
