Program Management/Programs/Silent Update/2011-10-13: Difference between revisions

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==Lessen the display of app update UI==
==Lessen the display of app update UI==
Owner: Rob
Owner: Rob
* 12-24 hours, per session as when you exit your session you apply the update
* if there's a newer udpate cancel the older update and download the newer one, this affects nightly and aurora, less important for release as the updates are every 6 week
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=Getting the word out=
=Getting the word out=

Revision as of 20:33, 13 October 2011

Features

Lessen the showing of the what's new page

Owner: Lawrence

Removal of OS security dialog for Windows

Owner: Brian

  • Security review went well, new ideas for test cases, open issues like how do we handle crash reports
  • don't know how to store certificates to do updates - registry or settings file being acceptible
  • review notes linked in feature page
  • needs to land on nightly, blocked - need to wait for driver signing before we can land it, can land code but can't turn it on beforehand
  • lawrence to follow up with chriss atlee
  • This change won't be visible by end users until release +1 as the service needs to be installed

Add-ons Default to Compatible

Owner: Chris

Apply update on shutdown

Owner: Ehsan

  • Two options being considered, asked bsmedberg and a couple of other people for feedback
  • more than likely this will make 11
  • shouod hhave a better idea of when this can be done by next week
  • think should improve the linux and mac experience quite a bit

New workflow for updating users with incompatible add-ons

Owner: Rob to work with Asa.

  • need meeting with ux to ensure that the experience is acceptible
  • should we ignore the fact that they have incompatible add-ons?
  • some ui would need to be included to allow users to override our override

Lessen the display of app update UI

Owner: Rob

  • 12-24 hours, per session as when you exit your session you apply the update
  • if there's a newer udpate cancel the older update and download the newer one, this affects nightly and aurora, less important for release as the updates are every 6 week

Getting the word out

Other

have the ability to inform users via the know hour rights popup if we need to. curtis had a concern in being too silent.