-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote on 01/03/13 01:44: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:05:35PM -0800, Alex Chiang wrote: ... > >> If you want to avoid the daily grind, press the close button >> when update-manager fires. Or set the 'check for updates' >> frequency to monthly. I think the intended audience for monthly >> images could handle that workflow. > > Except we really, really don't want users doing that. When > update-manager fires because there's a critical security update, > and failing to apply it means their machine will in short order > become part of a botnet with the best-designed UI the world has > ever seen, we really don't want the user's first instinct to be to > postpone the update. > > ...
Certainly we don't want people to instinctively dismiss the dialog. The recent redesign has aimed at getting consent more often. But changing the updates frequency instead is a valid option, because Software Sources has two update frequency settings. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#settings> "When there are security updates:", defaulting to "Display immediately". And "When there are other updates:", defaulting to "Display weekly". You can change the latter right now to "Display every two weeks", without delaying your exposure to security updates at all. As I understand the purpose of monthly snapshots so far, we could achieve the same effect simply by adding a "Display monthly" item to that second menu. However, currently when there are security updates, Software Updater assumes that you will want to install any available non-security updates at the same time, to minimize interruption. Minimizing bandwidth use from update churn is not a problem we optimize for at the moment (except for warning you when you're on mobile broadband). But we could add a setting for that if necessary. - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEwiREACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecq9sQCeMJfFmmq4W8r1T6ihLc0VIzio 1j0Ani8BmblJn8jwPhsfERVmKmY2X0+4 =jeJp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
