Harvesting: promoted nodes

[cryptoBeliever]

Description:

There is a proposition to present "suggested nodes for this month" on the harvesting view in the wallet. Those will be community nodes from members that did noticeable contributions to the project.

How it should work:

• present on harvesting view list of promoted nodes. Nodes should be always at beginning of the list.
• wallet should fetch nodes list from API
• there should be an easy way to edit the list of suggested nodes on the API side with restricted access
• to consider: add additional information to the node (icon, description for what it's promoted)

[segfaultxavi]

This sounds great! And it will stop the proliferation of 0-0-0-0-0-0 in front of node names.

Could the selection of the "Nodes of the month" be automatic based on some well-defined and public rules? Something like the Health used for supernode rewards, plus something to avoid being chosen two months in a row, plus some randomization.
If we do it manually we'll eventually be accused of manipulation...

[cryptoBeliever]

And it will stop the proliferation of 0-0-0-0-0-0 in front of node names.

This is done already. We are not sorting alphabetically since 1.0.5. Since 1.0.9 is on the list we present X random nodes. In the future, we probably replace random sorting with a "node health" score (uptime and so on).

This task is about something else. We want to promote nodes of community members that did contributions to the network not just by the running node but for preparing a great article, running a blog, develop the application. Evaluation in such cases will be always subjective (but voting can be manipulated - unless there will be an honest voting system) but there will be rules like "same user node can't be promoted two months in a row" and so on.

[segfaultxavi]

Ahh, OK. Sounds like a nice idea!