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Message 53942 - Posted: 3 May 2014, 19:25:24 UTC

Please, with the next stable release, update the list of projects in Boinc Manager. Some suggestions:
REMOVE
Docking@home
Simulation One
Superlink@Technion

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NRG@home
RojaScience

Ecc, ecc
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Message 53943 - Posted: 3 May 2014, 19:35:02 UTC - in response to Message 53942.  

with the next stable release

This isn't a thing based on a new client, the projects list can be adjusted at any time and read by most modern clients. So I'll fire an email in the direction of the developers, asking them to remove the projects. Once that's done, any next time you restart the client, it'll ping the BOINC website and get the latest newest bestest list in.
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Message 53999 - Posted: 7 May 2014, 7:11:22 UTC - in response to Message 53943.  

This isn't a thing based on a new client, the projects list can be adjusted at any time and read by most modern clients. So I'll fire an email in the direction of the developers, asking them to remove the projects. Once that's done, any next time you restart the client, it'll ping the BOINC website and get the latest newest bestest list in.


Thank you very much!!
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Message 54349 - Posted: 6 Jun 2014, 10:18:03 UTC - in response to Message 53942.  

Please, with the next stable release, update the list of projects in Boinc Manager. Some suggestions:
REMOVE
Docking@home
Simulation One
Superlink@Technion

ADD
NRG@home
RojaScience

Ecc, ecc


Again NRG, Rojascience and WildLife not present in list
P.S. VTU@Home is VGTU@Home
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Message 55318 - Posted: 10 Aug 2014, 18:19:41 UTC - in response to Message 53943.  

It'll ping the BOINC website and get the latest newest bestest list in.


Just out of curiosity, how accurate is the BOINC website as far as projects? Do projects specifically contact the website to get their project on the list, or is it managed by BOINC? Some of the projects on the list are obsolete, or non-functioning, and look like they have been for a while.
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Message 55446 - Posted: 17 Aug 2014, 21:45:00 UTC

DNA and WUprop are also not present.
DNA is now at http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/csg/
wuprop is at http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/
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Message 55450 - Posted: 18 Aug 2014, 8:29:31 UTC - in response to Message 55318.  

Just out of curiosity, how accurate is the BOINC website as far as projects? Do projects specifically contact the website to get their project on the list, or is it managed by BOINC?


VERY interesting questions!
I ask to add, for example, NRG@Home at beginning of May, but is still not present in the list...
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Message 55755 - Posted: 30 Aug 2014, 20:30:01 UTC - in response to Message 55318.  

Finally got around to asking David about these.

Just out of curiosity, how accurate is the BOINC website as far as projects?

About as accurate as it can be on a human scale. The Projects List (which is the same on the BOINC website and in the BOINC Manager Add Project wizard) is kept up-to-date by David, but as long as no-one tells him things have changed, it won't get adjusted. David does not read these forums, not even when I point out things, so when you have information about defunct projects, best email him about it.

Do projects specifically contact the website to get their project on the list, or is it managed by BOINC?

Projects have to request a place on the list. They only get added after David is sure that the project administrators know what they're doing and aren't wasting computing time.

Some of the projects on the list are obsolete, or non-functioning, and look like they have been for a while.

Send defunct project names to David, he'll then remove them.
But watch out, some projects may just have changed their URL, but still be functioning.

There is also a second list of projects in the BOINC User Wiki, but that one isn't kept up-to-date by David. Or anyone, it seems.
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Message 55813 - Posted: 6 Sep 2014, 8:09:05 UTC - in response to Message 55755.  

David does not read these forums, not even when I point out things, so when you have information about defunct projects, best email him about it.


I'll do.
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Message 57132 - Posted: 28 Oct 2014, 17:12:59 UTC - in response to Message 55755.  

David does not read these forums, not even when I point out things, so when you have information about defunct projects, best email him about it.


I did it. But no reply to mail and no change in project list...
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Message 57163 - Posted: 28 Oct 2014, 19:17:17 UTC - in response to Message 57132.  

David does not read these forums, not even when I point out things, so when you have information about defunct projects, best email him about it.


I did it. But no reply to mail and no change in project list...

He forgets, So after a suitable delay, email him again.

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