I have one more comment on this subject, and then I'll not comment further.
Milo Bloom said "The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you think your work is terribly important." This isn't like mail servers or web sites or DNS where everything has to work perfectly -- or else! It is a project whose primary goal is to collect a waste product (CPU cycles that would have gone to the idle process) and make them available to do various kinds of science. The only truly important part is making sure the results database doesn't get polluted by invalid results. Everything we're talking about here is how to optimally use those free CPU cycles. Optimization is good, it's a great goal. ... but it isn't mission-critical. The amount of angst generated when a waste product goes unused is just insane. The quota bug is a good example. It wasn't exactly broken as it was, but users wanted higher (or no) quota for fast machines. We'll be better off when it is working well. Volunteers wanted the change. They wanted it alot. So, the first pass at the change doesn't work. The only 100% safe way to deal with that is "don't make changes." ... and being rude never helps. It doesn't add to the message, it takes away. -- Lynn On 6/23/2010 10:48 AM, Raistmer wrote: > No one like to recive negative feedback, especially for poorly implemented > stuff (and even softly speaking it was poorly implemented on SETI main > indeed). But w/o such feedback next attempt would be even worse. BTW, bugs > like ridiculous quota numbers still reported even now... > >> I'd go so far as to say that the best thing a project can do is turn the >> forums off. It certainly serves no useful purpose when a vocal minority >> uses the forum to burn the developers in effigy. >> >> -- Lynn > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
