...Leave people alone and let them make whatever choices they want without solicitation.

wheres the problem? i just said "what about getting some volunteers back", not about being "aggressive at solicing support". if you dont like the idea, say that, but dont become unobjective.

I'm being quite objective and giving one point of view that you don't like. Seeking new participants is appropriate but attempting to re-activate (nag) previous participants who have consciously decided NOT to participate can/will be viewed as intruding into one's personal affairs. I would consider this an insult to my intelligence and freedom of action and may in fact be why a previous attempt to solicit participants was met with a cool response.

Perhaps in preferences you could set your resource share for Rosetta to 1 and leave that for Ralph at 100.

...that would have been my suggestion as well.

How long has this been going on? Which BOINC version are you running? How many days of work are you asking BOINC to keep on hand? Are these the only two projects you are attached to?

I see a large pile of tasks "aborted by user". Was that due to resetting the project?

BOINC attempts to avoid that situation by scheduling the task to run at "high priority" when the deadline approaches. This helps improve the odds that it will complete in time. Rosetta extended the deadline to 10 days (used to be 7 days).

For most BOINC projects, a partially completed task is not useful.

No, it will not automatically abort it. Last I knew, it will continue to work on it past the deadline and report it back when it completes. You often will receive no credit for tasks returned after the deadline.

If you have other tasks behind it that are past their deadlines, but have not begun computing yet, I'd definitely abort them.

hello,


im sorry if this is not the right place to ask this... so please tell me if this is the case, ill do it better the next time :)

now the question: are there any efforts in reviving old users with have a average credit below lets say 20? or simply users who didnt get credits for the last 2 or 3 months. its obvious that those users dont help rosetta anymore....

i thought of a email to those users, like this:


dear cruncher,

we noticed that you werent active at rosetta for 2/3 month. its very unfortunate that you blah it would be apreciated if you blah would help again blah and so on.



but you shouldnt write blah in the mail :)

maybe you could add something like "many things have changed, rosetta is improved with everey new version so if you ended helping rosetta because of failing WUs you could try again"

in short many things have changed, your reasons to end may be outdated.



im sorry if those mails are already automatically written...



johannes


edit: i think this could be helpful for users who actually want to help but simply forgot to install boinc after a reinstallation of the OS/ a new computer or whatever. or if you paused boinc and simply forgot to reactivate it :) this happend to me a few times, but i noticed it the next day....