Well, any 60 days advises will be a lot helpful. I support 100% this suggestion .

For any small cruncher, sound be a great help to change ours limited resources to crunch a different mix of projects, at least pay attention on some important project before it end.

Many crunchers don't have time to dedicate to follow the news in the foruns, and for sure lost many important notices about the projects.

In this aspect. an advise from WCG team 60 days before the end of any project, even if based on estimatives that could change, will increase the chance for many crunchers be aware about what will happens and take decisons based on this information.

It will help us too, with more apropriated time period, to decides contribute more significantly (due our small scale of course) before the projects final, and to participate more in this projects that probably we contributed less than we would like due some reason.

Thanks skgiven, appreciated your message.

Unfortunatelly I'm a small cruncher, just a humble guy with limited resources.

But do my best when possible to colaborate with specific projects, and from times to times I need jump out of WCG (due work reason), and my machine don't stay on in this periods. Back just today after long time out. Hope help a little bit more.

I don't see the relevance of the 60 day mark. If you don't check in within 30 days, then that is a cruncher priority to not really care that much. 30 days can still give a cruncher at least a bronze if they jump in on that announcement day or 14 days before completion. That isn't counting the resends/repair work units. So, if you have a goal in mind and you didn't just join within that 30 day period, it takes little effort from badge hunters and non-badge hunters to take a quick peak in the forums to see what is going on. I agree with Astrolab on this one. Those truly seeking badges put in the leg work to inform themselves and they typically ask (sometimes aggressively) on estimated completion times in each near ending project forums.

Edit: skgiven if your child died or is ill from cancer and that is why you are crunching that project...one would think that same cruncher would look in the forums for updates because it would be of interest to them. I would think this more so from this example then any other.

I appreciate all inputs until now, but just to keep in focus the main point about the suggestion, I would like to return the ball for WCG...

Wonder if anyone from tech team could informe us if this idea is feasible to be considered and implemented, or not, soon or later.

Once is just a message to be posted in the forums, I guess that is possible, but I don't know if tech team have affordability and availability to take this action.

Maybe, one way to be considered is put the 60 days advises in place of the 30 days advises, and in this way don't add more work to tech team but just antecipate the action to advise the WCG community about the final of projects... think about it please.

Thank you very much for all that share coments and thougths until now, and colaborate with the construtive discussion.

Best regards.

I agree the 60 day notice would be nice

yes it is true it will mostly concern badge hunters but to be honest one of the reasons alot of people here crunch a higher percentage of there BOINC time on here is cause of the badges...

I would assume it should not be too much more dificult to predict

again with myself i hate crunching to the wire and try to predict when a project may be ending so i can determin what final badge I want for that project

on HFCC I pushed my limit to make the 2 year point and would have been disappointed if i was short by a week or 2...

on DDDT1 I was not watching the posts so i am about 1/2 way between badges. with how DDDT2 is running unless it becomes a solid runner i will probably stop at ruby.

these are some of the choices i make when I donate my time to WCG.

to be honest if there were no badges i would probably only be doing about a 25% share on WCG with Boinc but since there are badges i am normaly at a 95%+ share.

also when trying to intrest a person in WCG if i need to know what there desires are and if i spend hours (in 5-10 min incriments) to get a person to crunch for WCG cause of project that is importnat for them and then at 40 days later the project ends I will probably loose that person cause i have not had the other chance to re-enfoce the idea that WCG projects all help. (this happend with the Influenza project when it starts phase 2 i have a chance to get someone back into the project)

@Skgiven I believe they have reasons they do not post end dates planned for projects and it is probaly similar reasons to why they do not tell us what a project is prior to it launching. but yes i would love to see an estimated end date of all projects when posible.