On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Paul A <paul.a@navalmarinearchive.com>wrote:
At 08:55 PM 12/3/2013 -0200, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:
My main concern is people having Koha instances that already reached EOL and/or are not supported anymore. How to do it is the topic in discussion. I like the idea of a button (maybe in the form of a tab in the about page ;-) and maybe with a disclamer notice and a confirmation button). Having a syspref defaulting to "disabled" could work if this is troublesome in several jurisdictions.
I'm referring to professionals who know full well what they are doing with their library systems, we don't need the security implications of any "preference" having external file editing capability. If amateurs need reminding, that's another question that should be available during installation, not afterwards.
Look around the landscape: does perl, or apache, or mysql, or zebra, or etc, etc... do this?
I'll bet your favorite browser has the option to notify you of updates. Furthermore, I'll bet you allow it to. The last time I did a fresh Ubuntu install, (a few weeks ago) I was offered the option of automagic updates (either full or just security). I'd bet Debian has this option too (probably other distros as well). So I'm not sure I see the sky falling yet. Not to knock security concerns, but this is well established practice as far as I can see. And I think that's the sort of thing we're talking about here. FTR: I'd love to see some sort of notification system implemented. Kind Regards, Chris