On 12/20/2016 01:56 PM, Eli Stevens (Gmail) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Michael Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/19/2016 06:23 PM, Eli Stevens (Gmail) wrote:
>>> - Is it possible to disable automatic updates for snaps? >> >> It's possible, I don't know the details of it though. Can you tell me >> what your concern is with leaving it on? > > The FDA requires us to produce documentation detailing the versions of > 3rd party software we use to construct our product, and attest to the > suitability of those versions for the purpose that we're using them > for. Maintaining the proper documentation gets a lot harder when the > version can get swapped out from underneath us without warning. And if > there's an actual incompatibility, that means that cancer patients > might not be able to start their course of treatment on time, which > the patients, clinical staff, and our director of customer support all > agree is undesirable. ;) > As a former employee of a cancer hospital, I would find that very undesirable as well :) I have passed this on to our internal teams to see what the best way of handling this use case would be. I'll let you know as soon as I hear something. -- Michael Hall [email protected]
