Thank you tonyh205 for adding a forum thread highlighting this forthcoming maintenance slot.

Yes, I'm also one (of, what I'm presuming, was many), who received the e-mail notifying us of the last maintenance slot long after it had all been done and dusted...

We are discussing adding a Daily email digest, where members who choose to do so, would receive notification daily of such News posts.

Thanks!
ErikaT

BobCat13,

If you have that feature then you're using a version of BOINC which is newer than the WCG preferred level. That is still way back at 6.10.58.

An alternative might be to use the RSS feature of "My News". That works great for me, but I use Mozilla Thunderbird as both an e-mail client and a feed reader already, so that's no big deal for me.

However, I believe that WCG techs should provide either a more timely e-mail, or notify people via the forum, at least until such time as WCG nominates a later BOINC level as sufficiently "hardened" for everyone to use. It would be very wrong to assume that all volunteers could use RSS feeds.

knreed published data back in May 2013 suggesting around 46% of users were using 6.10.58 or earlier so Apis Tintinnambulator makes a valid point.

Kevin - any chance of an update on that data?

Here is the latest breakdown in device versions:

Major version in use:

percent_devices percent_compute_power BOINC_version 
--------------- --------------------- ------------- 
60.99%          47.36%                6.10          
 8.89%          16.29%                7.0           
23.89%          32.49%                7.2           
 2.66%           0.58%                7.3           

Complete Breakdown:

percent_devices percent_compute_power BOINC_version 
--------------- --------------------- ------------- 
 0.01%           0.00%                5.4           
 0.00%           0.00%                5.5           
 0.18%           0.14%                5.8           
 0.00%           0.00%                5.9           
 0.98%           0.84%                5.10          
 1.33%           0.72%                6.2           
 0.00%           0.00%                6.3           
 0.06%           0.06%                6.4           
 0.00%           0.00%                6.5           
 0.19%           0.14%                6.6           
 0.06%           0.02%                6.8           
60.99%          47.36%                6.10          
 0.00%           0.00%                6.11          
 0.73%           1.28%                6.12          
 0.01%           0.00%                6.13          
 8.89%          16.29%                7.0           
 0.02%           0.08%                7.1           
23.89%          32.49%                7.2           
 2.66%           0.58%                7.3           

I believe that my earlier report was based on devices contributing to CEP2 specifically. This is total across our grid.