On 03.11.11 16:15, Peter Slacik wrote: > 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/". >
"Subprojects" - OK, I now understand why occasionally people in our forums confuse apps and projects. Unfortunate wording IMHO. > 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?/" > Both examples would behave differently from my original idea, and I'm not even sure this solves the original problem. These _could_ mean that work is accepted for applications people explicitly opted-out from (at the time of editing preferences), it doesn't say anything about future apps. And these refer only to the situation when there is no work available for the selected applications. If there really was a setting "Automatically send work for future applications not yet mentioned here" I would probably like it (if the default is "yes"). Any hints on implementing it to become a BOINC standard? > 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 :-( Literally nothing, that's their own custom code. >> 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. Doesn't sound like the average participant, though. Best, Bernd _______________________________________________ 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.
