[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] optional automatic updates

[James Cameron]

Oh, that's a pity, I hope someone else understands my questions.  ;-)

On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 06:34:03PM -0400, Martin Abente wrote:
> Hey James,
> 
> You lost me there :) We definitely have many other improvements we should add
> to the updater, but with this particular feature, only two things happen when a
> activity is "marked" as optional (in the microformat file):
> 
> a) the uptomatic updater (where there is no user interaction) skips that
> activity for upgrade or installation.
> b) the activity is not selected by default in CP updater UI list.
> 
> This way, deployments won't force clients to download some activities (ie., if
> they are too big), but users can still get these updates or new activities if
> they select them in CP updater UI list.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:58 PM, James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 08:40:26AM -0400, Martin Abente wrote:
>     > Thanks for the feedback, please notice that we already support
>     > automatic updates. This feature is simply to extend this microformat
>     > to mark some activities in the list so they don't get automatically
>     > updated or installed (ie., when they are too big for doing it
>     > massively).
> 
>     The perceived size of a download depends on the actual size, and the
>     bandwidth available.
> 
>     Does the updater handle stop and continue of download, and give any
>     indication of the duration expected?  Users will be more willing to
>     try massive updates (e.g. new Wikipedia activity) if they can be more
>     in control.
> 
>     Also, it would be nice if the updater provided updates to nearby
>     users.  ;-)
>    
>     --
>     James Cameron
>     [2]http://quozl.linux.org.au/
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [2] http://quozl.linux.org.au/

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/