I think this is a good enhancement for the updater. I am not sure if deserve the treatment of a feature, but you have my +1.
Gonzalo On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Martin Abente < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > A few development cycles ago, dsd added a useful new feature: automatic > activities updates. This has been of great help in deployments such as in > Australia. However, because the current implementation will always update > or install activities (when working in automatic mode), some deployments > might be unable to use this feature. A real case scenario is when some of > the activities are too big for massive activities updates. > > Therefore, I propose to extend microformat updater with an extra field to > mark activities as optional, so these optional activities won't be > installed or upgraded automatically. This flexibility will allow > deployments to use automatic updates and user will benefit from automatic > updates. > > I have created a feature page [1] with more details and a initial > implementation [2] of the feature itself (because is easier for me to talk > with working code). > > Let me know what you guys think! > > Regards, > tch. > > Refs: > 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Optional_activity_updates > 2. https://github.com/tchx84/sugar/commits/optional-updates > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs - Software for children learning
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