On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 20:11 -0500, charles zeitler wrote:
I propose we look at two things right away:
- Limit the frequency of non-critical updates to once per week in
stable releases
This was brought up, here, a few weeks back, and rightly shot down in flames for being a bad thing.
If there's a working update for something I have, I want it straight away. I don't want it delayed to suit some *dumb* rule.
I do my updates when I want to, and not automatically. If you want your updates run to a schedule, then that's what *you* should be doing, client-side.
Currently, server load will be randomly spread. But if everyone did their updates on the first of the month, or every Sunday morning, then the server would have a very uneven load. Perhaps one that was overwhelming.
Microsoft has doing this delaying tactic with update releasing for years, and has pissed off no end of people for doing so. Learn from other people's mistakes, don't copy them.