On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 13:21 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Adam Williamson > <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 15:05 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 11:55:26AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > problem. The fact that updates default to auto-push after +3 karma is > > > > entirely plucked out of the air, it's just something someone made up > > > > one day. We could *certainly* change that. I'd be quite interested in a > > > > tweak where there's a minimum-time-in-testing value for autopush too, > > > > which would default to say 2 days. The way that would work is automatic > > > > push would never happen until the update had actually been in updates- > > > > testing (not queued for push) for that long. *Manual* push could still > > > > be done during that time, and the update submitter could make the > > > > minimum-time-in-testing value larger or smaller (as they can make the > > > > karma threshold for autopush greater or smaller). 2 days would just be > > > > the default (and is similarly a number I've just made up; we could make > > > > it something else). > > > > > > What if we combined this time threshold with, also, auto-pushes happen > > > only on Monday (or whatever)? > > > > I wouldn't hate it. On a visceral level I've never bought the 'batched > > updates' idea at all, but if it only affects autopushes I don't mind > > tweaking around. It doesn't involve too much work to change, it's easy > > to change back, and manual pushes are still available. > > For whatever reason I've gotten three update notifications in Gnome > Software this week alone, and I've done the restart and install each > time. This is Fedora 25. And then 3-4 times at separate occasions I've > needed to add some command line items and each time dnf does a full > fedora and updates repo metadata download of around 40MB each time, > which is what I thought dnf-makecache.timer was supposed to do in the > background so I'd never see and have to wait for it just to get a 53K > program installed. GNOME Software doesn't use dnf's caches. Software will check for new updates at most every 48 hours, so if there happen to *be* new updates every 48 hours and your system is running the whole time, yeah, you can get 3-and-a-bit update notifications per week. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
