I tried to attatch my account to our regular team, but trying to do so didn't work, it said it couldn't find my team, or, in fact, any teams.
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I just created a fake account for testing this. I was able to join a team without any problem, (just click on test_account profile) i.e. I was not able to replicate your error.... (valterc)
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I just tried to join our team, click on the "find a team" link, enter Denmark in the Country field, and it shows "No teams were found matching your criteria. Try another search." BOINC@Denmark is the largest Danish team and appears at all other projects. The search cannot find ANY teams in Denmark, (there are several).
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Yep, there is no Danish team here. In order to join you have first to ask a team leader to create the team in this project...
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At other "new" projects, teams are imported at project set up time. I am the founder of many of our team instances, yet have not created teams at dozens of projects.
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At other "new" projects, teams are imported at project set up time. I am the founder of many of our team instances, yet have not created teams at dozens of projects.
Yes this is probably the common behavior, anyway, I investigated a little bit and found this message inside the logs on the server:
This choice (by default) is probably reasonable...
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Well, as admin, you now know the consequence of having the invitation code. You can't expect team admins to push your project.
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Well, as admin, you now know the consequence of having the invitation code. You can't expect team admins to push your project.
I know about this. Having the invitation code will limit the number of people coming here. But also I don't have spammers. There was a discussion about this in the boinc.projects mailing list, some time ago. The Collatz project was heavily attacked and now it is also using invitation codes. I hope there will be another reliable way to keep spammers, fake hosts and users, etc. away from the project but for now I will keep the invitation code.
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Fine, your project, your choice. You also understand there are costs. I've set no new tasks and will detatch when those here are cleared. Best wishes.
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Just setup the team and be done with it. The entire project suffers due to the spammers and can shut down databses or make them come to a crawl. This is the better option right now.
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Yes I can't really see what the problem is. I also am the founder of a team and very often I join a project before they get round to doing the BOINC team import thing, if they do at all.
So I often just make the team when I make my account as I want my output to all go to my team.
It is quick and easy to do.
I don't wait for the team import, it may or may not happen.
If I want to contribute toa project I don't wait around for the team import before I contribute.
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