If folks are concerned about bandwidth for calling home to d.o, etc, maybe we could give them the choice to check less frequently. Something like the following choices:

  • Every day
  • Every other day
  • Once a week
  • Never (only check manually)

?

Should be quite trivial, once there's agreement a) we want this and b) what the options should be.

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+1 for me but I will probably be the only one to want this.

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Status: Active » Needs review
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new update_status_check_frequency.patch.txt3.37 KB

merlin and I discussed in IRC... he's down with this, but we agreed to simplify it to just "Daily" vs. "Weekly". If you only want to check manually, you can always disable the module, enable it when you want to check, then disable again.

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Title: Add setting to control how frequently to check for updates? » Add setting to control how frequently to check for updates
Status: Needs review » Fixed

in IRC, merlin briefly reviewed, so in it goes. ;)

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)