Martin 53N 1W <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote:

Dr Anderson has outlined nicely and clearly the careful steps they will 
work through to smoothly move over to the much more versatile and newly 
developed boinc-s@h. The timescales are 'open-ended' depending on how 
each step proceeds.

See: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/transition.php

That's nice, but it would be nicer if the transition info was placed on
the Classic web page.  I have no interest in BOINC, so why should it be
necessary to go to the BOINC website to find information about Classic?

They have a lot of things to 'get right' and to still keep the project 
live. Rather than lie with optimistic dates, they are likely working to 
make the most timely transition as humans and systems allow.

I don't really care about knowing actual dates.  I just want to know
how long we'll have to return results after the shutdown announcement
is made.  Maybe they can't tell us the date when the project will end,
but surely they could say something like, "When we make the official
shutdown announcement, you'll have X number of days (or weeks) to
finish processing your WUs and return the results."  Exactly when the
shutdown occurs is less important to me than knowing how long X will be.
I just want to make certain I don't run out of WUs a few days before the
shutdown, or still have a cache full of unprocessed WUs when it's over.

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