There have been several recent mandatory upgrades that introduce backoff-related bugfixes.
I'm curious if it wouldn't be better for network health to have the build n make build n-1 mandatory instead. The reason would be that it seems likely to be bad for network health to be repeatedly severing the network into two separate pieces and slowly migrating nodes across the boundary -- the old set of locations and data stores assumed the old set of connections was in place. I realize this leaves buggy builds on the network longer, causing problems. However, if a sufficiently large fraction of the network upgrades quickly (which it would seem they do, since self-mandatory builds seem to work at least a bit), then that shouldn't persist more than a little bit. Mostly it just seems odd to me that upgrading to the new build comes at a penalty of having my node be on a very small network for the first day or two after the upgrade, particularly when upgrades come every day or two. Thanks, and good luck with the bug hunting :) Evan Daniel
