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Well, if you don't even give the admins of the selected projects a heads up, no wonder there are surprises.
Yes, you're right. But since Tim is much more busy at work this year, how could we help? Personally, I can only crunch and throw some ideas. And consider everything as a part of a challenge ...

A frustration gives me sometimes fresh ideas. I'll try to describe one. There's still some possibilities to save sprints future, I hope.

MAYBE with a help of Sebastian and IF it is possible to implement, we could run a subproject sprints.
In that case we could have for example a separate CPU only ...

Sprint #3 started earlier today. And the poll has NOTHING to do with Sprint #3 !!

Hi Tim,

just want to mention another 'very special' sprint - the current one.
All points counted for the moment are coming from a huge validation backlog and tasks made weeks ago.
There may be no points at all for ...

Additionally:
- Any update on when WCG points will get an update? There was plenty of work at the start of 2026 but still doesn't show up on FB (likely a WCG issue I guess?)
WCG will continue to export stats after completing DB migration as a part of the move to a new infrastucture

that was ...

Hi Tim and everyone,

I see mostly the problem of BOINC scheduler giving up asking tasks after a couple of tries. That's far not the optimal behaviour dealing with Asteroids server )

For me that means inability to add new machines quickly as they could remain idle for a half a day when unattended ...

The workunit was sent on 2.12. and received back on 4.12..
SO very fast 26 days ;-)

CPU time of course, but most of us do not posess EPYC ;)

the discussion may be going to loop of no compromise, so let us do some clear decisions:

1. The project 'yoyo' naturally unable to be divided by ...

Hi yoyo,

is it possible to divide ECM task to more subprojects like short/average/long as for example SRBase did for its CPU tasks? Then it would be likely no more reasons to avoid this project for sprints. In Primegrid we have a huge number of subprojects to choose and mostly the shorter ones are ...

Hi Tim and everyone,

I believe some projects are able to generate new tasks quickly to keep the ready-buffer constantly at 6k level for example, so yoyo possibly does. As Asteroids are showing us, 'tasks available' status doesn't mean the cruncher would get some immediately. And from the other side ...

Ha all,

the problem should be addressed at Asteroids forum. Despite having millions tasks ready, their feeder seems to be unable to maintain a quick distribution of large batches of tasks. It's happening every day, not only during sprints. Visually I see it in 'Task in progress' number which didn't ...

But some volunteers might not have the latest hardware to install Windows 11 onto, so running Linux projects via WSL isn't possible unless you have upgraded your host(s).

Hi Tim and everyone,

I don't know why are so many people concerned with the 'latest hardware' issue for running Windows 11. I ...