On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:16:20 +0100, Bernd Machenschalk wrote:
> On 03.11.11 13:24, Peter Slacik wrote:
>
>> Few (or many?) of projects, which allow to selectively opt-in/out for
>> each single applications, have one more optional checkbox to
>> automatically opt-in for "each new application, which will be added
>> by the project at some later time" for a particular venue. This way
>> the user is guaranteed to get some work, even if his presently
>> opted-in apps will be phased out. (I have no idea, whether this
>> checkbox' code comes from BOINC trunk, or is being individually added
>> by these projects.)
>
> I don't see this on our test project, which runs BOINC trunk web code
> of SVN rev 24406, of roughly two weeks ago. I don't think that this is
> because of our customizations, but can't exclude this right now.
>
> Could you point me to a project which has this?
OK, my apology, you've got me. The majority of the projects actually
tell something different from what I wrote, e.g.:
PrimeGrid project prefs
(http://www.primegrid.com/prefs.php?subset=project&cols=0
<http://www.primegrid.com/prefs.php?subset=project&cols=0>): "/Send
work from any subproject if selected projects have no work/".
Collatz Conjecture prefs
(http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/prefs.php?subset=project):
"/If no work for selected applications is available, accept work
from other applications?/"
I remember that at least the World Community Grid
(https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/viewMyProjects.do) suports the
application opt-in, in addition to the previously mentioned task opt-in:
"/Please opt me in to new projects as they become available/", but I
suspect the preferences code has less in common with BOINC trunk :-(
> I still find it overly complicated for both the participant and the
> BOINC server to have yet another setting to cover this case which I
> don't think is a special one, but if other projects got people used to
> that, I'd give in and adopt it.
Personally I'm glad to have such explicit options. When I'm connecting a
recent "powerful" (and always-on) machine, and an old "weaky" (or mostly
switched-off) machine, to the same project, I may allow the project to
send just any tasks to the former one, but have to carefully choose
applications (according to their crunch time and deadline) to be sent to
the latter one - surely with no automatic opt-in.
Peter Slacik
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