Dear group, I am happy to announce that both the saga-rg and the saga-core-wg have been (semi-randomly) picked as guinea-pigs for the new GridForge version. What does that mean? GGF is trying the current infamous and often-complained-about version of GridForge with a new, much improved and soewhat customized version. The transition is to be performed in two stages: - stage one (now): a number of group projects get migrated to the new installation, and stress-test it for two weeks - stage two (in two weeks): based on the feedback of the test groups, patches are applied, and all group projects are migrated to the new version According to step one, projects for saga-rg and saga-core-wg have been created on testforge.ggf.org (which hosts the new installation). The GridForge user ID's are _all_ migrated already, so you should be able to use your old login. Also, you should have the correct membership etc. Please let me know if there is something wrong with your account. Of course its also possible to create new accounts. A striking difference between the old and new GF is that the 'help' function is actually useful: please try to consult it whenever you think you are lost etc, and tell us if the help did not tell you what you wanted to know. I made the group chairs and secretaries admins of the respective projects. If someone else wants to play around with project configuration etc, please let me know, and I'll add the respective accounts. Well, the bottom line is: please try to use the new GridForge, and give us feedback! We think its MUCH better than the old one, but we need YOUR confirmation before we go ahead and start adopting it for all GGF projects. http://testforge.ggf.org/sf/sfmain/do/viewProject/projects.saga-rg http://testforge.ggf.org/sf/sfmain/do/viewProject/projects.saga-core-wg Thanks, Andre. PS.: we found the first major glitch: email addresses did not get migrated correctly. I'll try to fix that manually for the saga folx - please let me know if you have trouble with mail. PPS.: the saga-core-group is new - you probably need to join the project, as only a few people are members there as of yet. -- "So much time, so little to do..." -- Garfield