Improving the offline updates user experience

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 09/16/2014 06:33 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> I've triaged many bugs to do with online and offline update failures, 
> and if we're going to say that we actually care about the users data, 
> it becomes increasingly hard to defend the "old" way of doing it. I'm 
> sure I could find numerous bugs numbers where doing an online update 
> made the session/terminal crash which of course leaves you with 
> duplicate packages on your system which may or may not be fixable. 
> Richard 
OK, but this is means that we painted ourselves in the 
corner---something is wrong if my Android phone, which I don't have to 
reboot for updates,  has higher uptime than my computer.

We are in a bind: on one hand, the best security practice is to upgrade 
daily to avoid emerging vulnerabilities; on the other hand daily reboots 
aren't really a nutritious alternative.  Something has to give---which 
one do we do:

  - create a separate daily security upgrade stream, curated to not 
require reboots if at all possible

  - follow Microsoft and do a fixed 'patch Tuesday' schedule instead of 
ASAP updates

  - rewrite Linux or at least Gnome/DBus for safe updates :)


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