Well, with the "soon to be" available projects down temporarily to just two (FA@H & CEP2), I was wondering as to what everyone else thought was the 'optimum number of projects' that, in an ideal world, should be running on WCG?

I know that, SN2S & DSFL are/will be soon coming back with more WU's to crunch, and that, at some point, HFCC will also be in the same boat, although my thoughts (and that's solely what they are), is that, as I see it, SN2S & DSFL are currently (or soon to be) temporarily out of available WU's due to the scientists not being able to keep up with the speed that WCG are chomping through them - possible (probably) due to the reduced number of available projects we currently have.

Personally, I think, from a crunchers point of view, that half a dozen is an ideal number - my reasonings are as below;
1) as that provides choice,
2) doesn't "swamp" the various project scientists with a huge amount of WU's in a short timespan (i.e. they've got time to analyse what they've gotten back whilst at the same time, creating new WU's),
3) allows for one or two projects going temporarily 'off-line',
4) when a new project comes 'on-line', it isn't a case of "here and gone" in a matter of weeks due to demand (I suspect, that, when HFCC comes back, it'll take a lot less than the previous ~3 months to crunch, as the earlier targets suggest it would), and
5) keeps the WCG techs from having "too many plates to spin" (in the past, I do recall a comment or two from the WCG techs/admin, stating that 10-12 projects creates so much workload, that it's virtually impossible for them to be doing anything else).

What do others think?