[volunteergrid2-l] Should we increase the node minimum capacity?

[Shawn Willden]

Six months seems perfectly reasonable to me.  I'm not sure what it
means to give a "minimum" of six months, though... perhaps what you
mean would be more clearly expressed as:

"In the event that the VG2 community elects to increase the minimum
node capacity requirement, the community will also choose a timeframe
within which all existing members must meet the new requirement.  The
timeframe will be no sooner than six months after the requirement
change is approved.  New members and new nodes will be required to
commit to the new guideline upon joining."

If that's what you meant, that the six months is a binding minimum on
the community, that we cannot make a change faster than that, I wonder
if it should be a little tighter; maybe three months.  Keep in mind
that although our 2:1 ratio does help keep us from getting to the
effectively full state, it doesn't absolutely prevent it.

This also points out another question... how do we know when the
community has made a decision to change a policy?  It seems like we
need to define a voting process, and a voting standard.  Do we want to
formally state that all policy changes must be by consensus -- by
which I mean "general accord", or 100% approval?  A simple majority
seems to me not to be a sufficient basis on which to change policies,
but 100% approval is problematic.  A 2/3 or 3/4 supermajority?  That
seems like a good approach to me.

As for process, there's also the question of whether we want balloting
to be secret or public, and how to go about it.  I started to type out
a proposal and then thought... someone has to have created a nice,
free on-line service for this, so I searched and found
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html.  It seems perfect, to me.

I propose we use CIVS for policy decisions.  We can have a list
discussion to get general consensus on the question and the choices,
and then we'll use the service, giving one vote to each NODE.  The
list of voter e-mail addresses will be from the list of active,
operational nodes.  Operators who have multiple nodes will have to
provide the vote supervisor with additional addresses they can use to
submit their other votes if they want to exercise their multi-voting
prerogative.

Just as a test, I've created a CIVS vote on this node increase
question.  Everyone who receives an invitation should please vote, but
we won't consider the result binding.  It's mostly just a test, and I
figure it might also be informative.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Jody Harris <jharris at harrisdev.com> wrote:
> A policy proposal:
> "In the event that the VG2 community elects to increase the minimum node
> requirement, all members will be given a minimum of 6 months to comply with
> the new guideline. New members and new nodes will be required to commit to
> the new guideline upon joining."
> I guess this would go in as "4b" in the policies
> (http://bigpig.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VolunteerGrid2Policies).
> Thoughts?
> 6 months?
> jody
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> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org> wrote:
>>
>> So far all of the responses have been pretty positive.
>>
>> So... is there anyone who objects to increasing the minimum node side
>> from 500 GB to 1 TB (and the maximum size from 1 TB to 2 TB)?  I don't
>> want anyone to feel like they're being railroaded.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Marco Tedaldi <marco.tedaldi at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello everyone
>> >
>> > Okay... I've just upgraded my server to 1TB about a year ago... Seems to
>> > be time to do it again.
>> >
>> > Good to have a good reason to do so.
>> >
>> > best
>> >
>> > Marco
>> >
>> > Am 03.11.2011 21:30, schrieb Christoph Langguth:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> this is just to let you know that we just ordered the new 2TB disk
>> >> today. I hope to be joining the grid within the next 2 weeks or so.
>> >>
>> >> In any case, I'm perfecly fine with increasing the minimum -- the new
>> >> disk will be used for VG2 and local backups exclusively, so 1TB is no
>> >> problem at all.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >> Chris
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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Shawn