I gave a reply to that today in one of those 23,765 posts.
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=674399

On a bad day just break their fingers. Makes no sense destroying good equipment.

It is painful in the sense that we all want to be back doing the projects we love. I can see the step by step progress that is being made, so I'm looking forward to the next hurdle, hoping we are nearing the finish line of the testing phase.

I suspect that test WUs won't "count" when all is said and done.

Ralf,
The nearest to official word on whether these "count" or not that I've seen is in the original message in this very thread:
which I read as "this is production work"...

The core BOINC server functionality accumulates credit per device per project as a standard behaviour -- it just doesn't provide any user-facing reporting tools on it by default! -- WCG must have had that enabled to provide user statistics in the past, and I doubt they've changed that part of the core configuration (having no reason to do so!) so the totals should be accumulating.

So as long as there isn't some strange time limit built into the existing WCG user statistics process that makes the "My Contribution" statistics, there's no real reason that work done during this test period won't eventually get counted as the information should be there to add.

That said, I hope it's the case that they just haven't been running [all] the statistics scripts, rather than there is some blockage somewhere :-)

I think more folks are likely to be driven away by some of the more pessimistic speculations I've seen in various threads -- that said, if the WCG team have some inkling as to whether all test period credit will be accrued eventually it would shut down some of the credit speculation at once -- they wouldn't even need to put an expected time on it :-)

We can dream...

Cheers - Al.

OUCH!

Those statistics are taken from an XML file at a known location on the server, and that file is generated by the only user stats program BOINC provides as standard (db_dump), which does nohing but write that file... (I presume IBM/WCC had left that alone and written separate stuff for the much more detailed stats one could get at WCG)

As evidenced by that stats site link, it seems to have been running regularly (and probably more or less correctly) until now; interestingly, the Overview page current today says the last update to the user and team XML was on the 25th (but that might not mean what I think it ought to!)

As you said, time will tell, so let's hope it's a file issue rather than a data loss.

Cheers - Al.

[Edited to add "last update" comment]