[Chandler-dev] Supporting an auto-update feature for the Desktop

[Grant Baillie]

On 27 Mar, 2008, at 15:23, Sheila Mooney wrote:
> We would have to monitor the update check somehow. Of course, I have  
> no idea what is easy/hard technically. The theory is that if your  
> application is checking for updates, it means you are running  
> Chandler. We currently monitor synchs per day on the hub and equate  
> that to "activity".

It's not too hard to do, even though what you want seems to have been  
under discussion since 2004:

<https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603>

Of course, such a thing could only start happening in 0.7.6, and also  
people should probably have some kind of opt-out (for privacy reasons).

Now that I have some idea of the workings of the build system and  
various web servers, I think that it wouldn't take more than a couple  
of days to get something basic working (a periodic or manual check,  
followed by showing a simple dialog if something new is available).

I also have a couple of related (but somewhat different) proposals in  
my queue for 1.0:

<https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11448>
<https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11737>

It might be a good time to review these and figure out exactly what  
we'd like to do for 1.0 :).

--Grant

> On Mar 27, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Grant Baillie wrote:
>
>> On 27 Mar, 2008, at 14:59, Sheila Mooney wrote:
>>> Not sure if this makes things easier but we could also simply pop up
>>> a dialog letting people know there is an update available and they
>>> could install manually. It would accomplish the same goals as far as
>>> finding out who is running Chandler.
>>
>> Hi, Sheila
>>
>> How would that help you distinguish regular users from people who
>> download, but don't use regularly?
>>
>> --Grant
>>
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