Bug 688305

Summary:	Update notification period should be shorter for pre-releases
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Williamson <awilliam>
Component:	gnome-settings-daemon	Assignee:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	15	CC:	bnocera, cra, jlaska, matt, mclasen, metherid, rstrode, vhumpa, walters
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Description Adam Williamson 2011-03-16 19:02:35 UTC

The gsettings key org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.updates / frequency-updates-notification sets the frequency at which users will be notified of available (non-security) updates. For F14, the equivalent gconf key was set to 1 day (in seconds). For F15, it's now set to 1 week. This is apparently per direction from the GNOME design team.

I think this is at least partly a distro policy issue, not a pure UI design issue, and QA feels that certainly during the pre-release period, 1 day is a more appropriate notification schedule than 1 week: we want people testing the pre-release to be updating more often than every week. Could this value be changed to 1 day at least up until release time?

If the change to once per week sticks for the release, this should be mentioned in release notes, I think.

Comment 1 James Laska 2011-03-16 19:25:30 UTC

Thanks for raising this change Adam.  Our current updates system relies on Karma feedback for updates to get into 'stable' (or 'updates-testing' for critpath packages).  If the interval is now 1 week, I'm worried we are increasing the test feedback delay from contributors.  With our already tight release cycle, my thought is we'd want feedback more closely coupled with the development.

Is there any way we can change the interval for Alpha+Beta to be daily, but weekly for the final release?

Add to F15Beta proposed list so we can at least have a decision before Beta release.

Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2011-03-18 17:26:41 UTC

Discussed at 2011-03-18 blocker review meeting. Accepted as an NTH issue on the basis that if we decide to change policy that's a change we can take through freeze, but actual discussion of whether to change should take place elsewhere, probably desktop list to start with.

Comment 3 Colin Walters 2011-03-18 17:49:30 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)

> Is there any way we can change the interval for Alpha+Beta to be daily, but
> weekly for the final release?

From an engineering perspective that makes sense to me; though we have to be careful with changes like this that are only on right up until the final release, since they mean we aren't testing what we're going to ship, and someone has to remember to flip all of them back.

Comment 4 Matt McCutchen 2011-03-28 00:55:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> actual discussion of whether to change should take place elsewhere,
> probably desktop list to start with.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2011-March/007044.html

Comment 5 Rahul Sundaram 2011-04-07 08:28:54 UTC

The change to one week for non-security updates need a release note.  Nominating

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