[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #8009: Phased releases and roll-outs of plugins

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#8009: Phased releases and roll-outs of plugins
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 Reporter:  matt              |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by azaozz):

 Another big +1 for this! As a plugin author that has maintained plugins
 with millions of active installs for many years having some peace of mind
 at release time would be rally helpful. Would be great to be able to
 detect if something in the new release may have gone terribly wrong
 without breaking the sites of millions of users :)

 > `Update to v2.0 either by user clicking Update, OR automatically in
 +29hrs`

 Yep, sounds good. Even maybe can explain it as "slow updates" option, to
 both plugin authors and WP users/site admins.

 Thinking about the mechanics: using percentage may not be ideal. Plugins
 with 5-10k of active installs would get less than 500 early updates. But
 plugins with many millions of active installs will have something like
 50-60k, or even more. Seems that would defeat the purpose to some extend.

 Perhaps having a threshold would be better? Something like 3-4k seems
 sensible? This number would be enough to detect if something in the
 release has gone really wrong, and fixes are needed urgently, and at the
 same time will protect the bulk of the plugin's users from having the same
 problems.

 Also thinking it would be pretty nice if the ability of plugins authors to
 pause and resume a release is stand-alone. So the authors can react even
 if phased (slow) release is not used, but there are a lot of complains in
 the plugin's forum that something's wrong, sites are down, etc.

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