Overall, we prefer the latter approach and recommend that it be adopted. This is probably best considered as a responsibility of the consortium partners so that, for example, NRAO would offer a workshop for the users of NRAO telescopes. Computer-based conferencing may also eventually allow effective training to proceed year round, but this needs some investigation. We envisage that all of these would be covered in annual developers workshops. We see user feedback as coming via a number of mechanisms.
Immediate feedback comes via email, phone calls, and bug reports.
This feedback and any related replies should be logged in a generally accessible form. Thus for purposes of logging, we will prefer feedback via e-mail. Admittance of code to these repositories is controlled by a number of different policies. Admittance of code and documentation to one of these directories requires passing our code review process. The core documentation source is kept here.