Jorden, Your voice has been one of reason and rationality in a very tumultuous environment. You have helped calmn the waters with guiding us through many policy decisions. In some of these issues such as credits, there is no right answer. For the past couple months, I have been in the same position trying to deal with criticism in my life, job and through BOINC. I empathize totally and only you can judge what you want to dedicate your time and resources to. You are always welcom to contribute to any of my projects.
Jack On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:09 PM, David Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > Right now there's a problem: there's no clear definition of credit. > Projects with GPU apps have to come up with ad-hoc formulas for credit, > and all projects have to fiddle around with "normalization" factors. > > This creates an unhealthy environment in which credit-motivated > volunteers pressure project admins to grant more credit, > and volunteers select projects based on their credit policy. > > This will go away (or at least subside considerably) > when we implement the new credit system, > which eliminates fudge factors; > all projects will grant credit in exactly the same way. > > In my view, credit-based competition is good for volunteer computing, > but only if credit is an objective measure. > > -- David > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > -- Jack http://drugdiscoveryathome.com http://hydrogenathome.org _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
