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

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#1476: WordPress Update Notification
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 Reporter:  mdawaffe        |        Owner:  rob1n   
     Type:  enhancement     |       Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  2.2     
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  1.6     
 Severity:  minor           |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  update upgrade  |  
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Comment (by westi):

 I do have some ideas for this.

 My basic idea was to refresh the patch as follows:

  1. Use ajax to call the checking code from the dashboad
  1. Cache the result and check every n minutes, where n probably = 15
  1. Use REST to get the info from a specific url ecoding the version
 number into the url

 My feeling for the returned info would be to allow a message and a
 severity to be returned. Preferably with one call to the REST service.

 The severity would be used to modify how the info was displayed so as to
 hilight a more severe issue such as an easily exploitable vulnerability.

 I would have been working on this but have been snowed under at work :-(

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