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These changes prevent the GUI from making assumptions about researcher and beacon statuses before a wallet finishes downloading the chain. In this way, we avoid displaying confusing information. Before, someone with an existing beacon might see an "action needed" prompt until the wallet downloads the block that contains the current beacon, and the magnitude and pending accrual fields can jump around wildly until the sync finishes.

Instead, the wallet will display a "waiting for sync..." status label in place of content that needs the context at the chain tip.

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Do we need to distinguish between an out-of-sync during a sync from zero or from a snapshot to head versus a transient out-of-sync situation? I am not sure it is appropriate to flip this if a wallet was in sync and then goes out of sync for a few minutes? Not sure, but it is worth considering.

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I don't think it's worth the extra complexity to detect a short sync-up period. In many cases, those will likely resolve before the GUI refresh interval passes to run the test. Longer sync issues at the chain tip could be a sign of a deeper problem, so the researcher status is hardly a concern in these situations. Showing "out-of-sync" here may even be better to help draw attention to the problem.

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I think I agree with you.

@jamescowens jamescowens merged commit 61c0c76 into gridcoin-community:development Mar 27, 2021
jamescowens added a commit to jamescowens/Gridcoin-Research that referenced this pull request Apr 4, 2021
Added
 - doc: Invite users to donate to Gridcoin Foundation gridcoin-community#1997 (@smoe)
 - rpc: Add "getburnreport" RPC function gridcoin-community#2049 (@cyrossignol)
 - doc: Add undocumented "-showorphans" GUI option to help text gridcoin-community#2058 (@cyrossignol)
 - beacon: Cull beacon db memory (passivation) gridcoin-community#2069 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Avoid refreshing GUI researcher status while out-of-sync gridcoin-community#2068 (@cyrossignol)
 - consensus: Reimplement checkpoint-based spam protection gridcoin-community#2084 (@cyrossignol)
 - consensus: Verify hardened checkpoints on start up gridcoin-community#2087 (@cyrossignol)

Changed
 - gui: Clarify overview page "stake" field gridcoin-community#2056 (@cyrossignol)
 - doc: Update Copyright headers gridcoin-community#2059 (@barton2526)
 - gui: Update Qt Linguist localization files gridcoin-community#2063 (@cyrossignol)
 - build: update dependencies gridcoin-community#2064 (@barton2526)
 - net: Reduce default connection limit back to 125 gridcoin-community#2066 (@cyrossignol)
 - build: openssl patch gridcoin-community#2074 (@barton2526)
 - translation: Translate /src/qt/locale/bitcoin_en.ts in pt_PT gridcoin-community#2083 (@DjMVeiga)
 - log: Adjust logging gridcoin-community#2076 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Change scraper tab to Inconsolata monospace font gridcoin-community#2085 (@jamescowens)
 - researcher: Change beacon deferment fix to reference nActiveBeforeSB gridcoin-community#2092 (@jamescowens)

Removed
 - net: Clean up mandatory protocol version transition gridcoin-community#2080 (@cyrossignol)
 - refactor: Remove LessVerbose() function gridcoin-community#2089 (@cyrossignol)

Fixed
 - beacon: Fix a subtle error in renewal chain walker gridcoin-community#2054 (@jamescowens)
 - researcher: Fix "malformed CPID" status for some pool projects gridcoin-community#2052 (@cyrossignol)
 - lint: Misc Typos gridcoin-community#2060 (@barton2526)
 - lint: remove identified duplicate includes gridcoin-community#2061 (@barton2526)
 - gui: Fix splash screen block height progress gridcoin-community#2057 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Fix garbage placeholders in some tx notification localizations gridcoin-community#2070 (@cyrossignol)
 - build: Patch libzip to fix mingw compile regression for mingw 9.2+ gridcoin-community#2082 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Fix shutdown response for failed core init gridcoin-community#2088 (@cyrossignol)
 - researcher: Fix deferment of beacon renewal in superblock window gridcoin-community#2090 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Fix typo in beacon status refresh gridcoin-community#2091 (@div72)
jamescowens added a commit to jamescowens/Gridcoin-Research that referenced this pull request Apr 4, 2021
Added
 - doc: Invite users to donate to Gridcoin Foundation gridcoin-community#1997 (@smoe)
 - rpc: Add "getburnreport" RPC function gridcoin-community#2049 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Add stats export reminder to beacon wizard auth page gridcoin-community#2050 (@cyrossignol)
 - doc: Add undocumented "-showorphans" GUI option to help text gridcoin-community#2058 (@cyrossignol)
 - beacon: Cull beacon db memory (passivation) gridcoin-community#2069 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Avoid refreshing GUI researcher status while out-of-sync gridcoin-community#2068 (@cyrossignol)
 - consensus: Reimplement checkpoint-based spam protection gridcoin-community#2084 (@cyrossignol)
 - consensus: Verify hardened checkpoints on start up gridcoin-community#2087 (@cyrossignol)

Changed
 - test: autogenerate data headers gridcoin-community#2030 (@div72)
 - doc: Change copyright years to 2021 gridcoin-community#2042 (@caraka)
 - gui: Clarify overview page "stake" field gridcoin-community#2056 (@cyrossignol)
 - doc: Update Copyright headers gridcoin-community#2059 (@barton2526)
 - gui: Update Qt Linguist localization files gridcoin-community#2063 (@cyrossignol)
 - build: update dependencies gridcoin-community#2064 (@barton2526)
 - net: Reduce default connection limit back to 125 gridcoin-community#2066 (@cyrossignol)
 - build: openssl patch gridcoin-community#2074 (@barton2526)
 - translation: Translate /src/qt/locale/bitcoin_en.ts in pt_PT gridcoin-community#2083 (@DjMVeiga)
 - log: Adjust logging gridcoin-community#2076 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Change scraper tab to Inconsolata monospace font gridcoin-community#2085 (@jamescowens)
 - researcher: Change beacon deferment fix to reference nActiveBeforeSB gridcoin-community#2092 (@jamescowens)

Removed
 - net: Clean up mandatory protocol version transition gridcoin-community#2080 (@cyrossignol)
 - refactor: Remove LessVerbose() function gridcoin-community#2089 (@cyrossignol)

Fixed
 - build: Fix depends cross-compilation for macOS gridcoin-community#2038 (@cyrossignol)
 - build: Deal with Qt depends .qmake.stash file gridcoin-community#2048 (@cyrossignol)
 - beacon: Fix a subtle error in renewal chain walker gridcoin-community#2054 (@jamescowens)
 - researcher: Fix "malformed CPID" status for some pool projects gridcoin-community#2052 (@cyrossignol)
 - lint: Misc Typos gridcoin-community#2060 (@barton2526)
 - lint: remove identified duplicate includes gridcoin-community#2061 (@barton2526)
 - gui: Fix splash screen block height progress gridcoin-community#2057 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Fix garbage placeholders in some tx notification localizations gridcoin-community#2070 (@cyrossignol)
 - build: Patch libzip to fix mingw compile regression for mingw 9.2+ gridcoin-community#2082 (@jamescowens)
 - gui: Fix shutdown response for failed core init gridcoin-community#2088 (@cyrossignol)
 - researcher: Fix deferment of beacon renewal in superblock window gridcoin-community#2090 (@cyrossignol)
 - gui: Fix typo in beacon status refresh gridcoin-community#2091 (@div72)
@cyrossignol cyrossignol deleted the wizard-improvements branch September 2, 2021 15:01
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