Your comment to point 1 is ruthlessly honest.....coming from the world of half full glasses, rather then half empty, tell the members, that if their machine manages to do a WU in less than 7x24 wallclock hours from receipt, they should be happy to continue, in fact, where in past their 5-7 day delivery was often a duplication, its now fully valued!

Hmm, interesting. Since the BOINC Manager seems to determine that it needs to get more work based on its estimated to completion times, it's not impossible for BOINC to download work that won't complete in time. Granted, you'd need a 4 day or so connect to server setting, but it seems quite possible. My experience is that regardless of the specific connect to server setting I have, the actual time (CPU) that the WU's take to crunch varys from 50% of that setting to 200%. Yes,the tom completion numbers are estimates - apparently very bad ones. If someone is going to be traveling all week without network access and sets their connect to server value to 5 days, they'll get what BOINC thinks is five days work. In reality, those WU's could finished in as little as 2-3 days or as much as 10. In the latter case, some number of WU's won't get crunched before the deadline. (I have GOT to find out the method to the madness behind those to completion estimates).

There are still some workunits that had been loaded with the 3 week deadline that are being sent out now. Later today, the workunits with the 1 week deadline will start being sent out. This deadline will show on the BOINC client and on the results status page.

Does anyone know if the reissue time is being changed to 1 week as well?

If your WUs will still be reissued to the fast & reliable replacement hosts after 4 days, then that's still the effective deadline, regardless of what the software shows.

If the reissue time is being stretched to 1 week, that's fine, but we should expect our validation queues to get a bit longer, and our daily scores to dip for a few days until the queues finish growing.

Edit: Never mind, Didactylos just answered me in another thread. Apparently the reissue time will be gradually increased to match the stated deadline. Thanks, all.

Yes, the REAL problem is before BOINC even starts crunching on a WU. It just seems a bit disconcerting to see the to completion time for all FAAH WU's I have go from 28 hours to 11 hours or vicea versa before BOINC's even started crunching them (same with HPF just different relative numbers). The fact that all the WU's for the same project have the SAME to completion time and they all changed in lockstep somehow before a single nibble has been crunched just screams hokey numbers. Those are the ones that really determine when you get another WU given your connect to server setting. The one in process has some voice but it's fairly minor.