[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #1476: WordPress Update Notification

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#1476: WordPress Update Notification
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 Reporter:  mdawaffe        |        Owner:  pishmishy  
     Type:  enhancement     |       Status:  assigned   
 Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  2.3 (trunk)
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  2.1        
 Severity:  normal          |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:  update upgrade  |  
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Comment (by westi):

 A few other comments that have come to mind:

  1. Update check should happen often - I have found that every 15 minutes
 works well for the update service I already provide
 (http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/wp-version-check/) - the bandwidth used
 is minimal. (Last month the ~1000 unique users of my service used only
 10MB of bandwidth)
  2. Update check should timeout quickly on it's connection to the remote
 server - to alleviate page load problems on downtime of the update
 service.
  3. Hooks to perform actions when a new version is detected would be a
 bonus - this could allow plugins to trigger admin emails / auto-upgrades
 etc.

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