[atlas] Friday's events on RIPE Atlas

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On 2015/09/23 10:22 , Gert Doering wrote:
> I have always understood that if you need "more resources than
> your credits allowed", you could talk to the atlas team, explain
> your needs, and find a solution - so it seems this is what was
> done, as documented...?
> 
> That it blew up the thing did obviously not work as planned, but
> the general option to have exceptions for tests that "really need
> all of the probes!" sounds useful to me.
> 
> Document the process and criteria better?  Maybe.

By nature, researchers want to do things that nobody else is doing.
And in many cases they want it all. More data is better.

Unfortunately, such an experiment may overload parts of Atlas in
unexpected ways.

I take it that documenting the process and criteria better is for the
most part something internal to the Atlas team.

Philip
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