[wp-hackers] Dashboard Clutter

[Morgan Doocy]

If I understand correctly, these "important announcements" would be 
limited to important bug fixes, security-related announcements, and 
other low-frequency but high-importance information.

I'd like to see the UI for this follow the example of update 
notification in other products (e.g. Windows Update, Software Update, 
Firefox), wherein nothing is displayed unless new updates are 
available.

I picture important messages taking a form similar to, but very 
distinguishable from, the "?updated=true" messages that are frequent 
throughout WordPress, only showing up if there's something important to 
say. The message should be displayed until the user has either 
"dismissed" the notice, or has fulfilled requirements for its automatic 
removal, e.g. installed a bug fix.

Of course, RSS would be extremely inefficient for this, so a more 
customized means of notification would probably be in order. For 
example, a simple GET request to an update server, with the revision 
number in the query string. The server would reply with one or more 
xml-formatted update notifications if there are any for that revision; 
if not, a simple "OK" would do. Combine that with a pseudo-cron to 
perform the check periodically and you'd have a robust, extremely lean 
update notification system.

Morgan


On Feb 5, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Owen Winkler wrote:

> Ryan Boren wrote:
>
>>> Maybe you understood my point from my last message, but I want to be 
>>> clear about this:
>>> Interviews and musings about blog society are fine content and even 
>>> I enjoy them.  But the primary feed that's permanently on the 
>>> dashboard should display *only* high-risk security notices and 
>>> version upgrades.  If some random weekly post (that users have 
>>> questionable interest in anyway) pushes down an important security 
>>> upgrade notice, something has gone wrong.
>>>
>>
>> We could post all important announcements to a certain category and 
>> use
>> the feed for that category in Dashboard.
>>
> We have a winner.
>
> Owen
>
>
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