RE: Gridcoin Community Hangout #047

Thanks for posting, can't guarentee that I will be there but would be good to have people read the proposal, have a look at the example spreadsheet (which includes the required project xml scraper) and discuss.

The proposal has already undergone several revisions after feedback. The main remaining gap in the proposal is how we validate an unlisted project can absorb a step change in load without positive communication with a project admin. After feedback I have minimised any need for positive action by a project admin and we shouldn't be reliant on the admins for our project listings.

The proposal ensures a project is stable before whitelisting and will greylist any project we destabilise by whitelisting, however there is no automated way I have found to work out whether a project can handle the load in advance.

Note: Sourcefinder would not have been whitelisted under this proposal as it was not fully stable before they were Whitelisted.

To implement the proposal would need the following:

Vote Passed in Wallet. (Draft posted on slack)
Agreed official web location for lists and background scraper/calcs
- Apparently Gridcoin.us cannot currently host (ask barton)
Set-up webpage with lists and a background table with calcs and scraper at agreed location.
- Example provided in Libreoffice spreadsheet with a basic VBA update macro, would need daily update of stats. Stats can be manually primed with the last 40 days from boincstats as I have done in the example but these are replaced one day at a time as each days data is scraped from each projects XML stats each day.
Optional: Set-up bot to post any suggested project listing changes from the listing web page to the TeamGridcoin slack # boinc_projects channel.