[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15101: Update Message Reduces User Orientation reg. WordPress Version

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#15101: Update Message Reduces User Orientation reg. WordPress Version
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 Reporter:  hakre            |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Upgrade/Install  |     Version:  2.5
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch        |     Focuses:
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Comment (by circlecube):

 I agree. I think it's worth pointing out that we have two users to
 consider here. The power users who are primarily the ones updating sites,
 and the masses who rarely run their update, the actual crowd who these
 background updates are for (I dare say). We can either ignore the power
 users who want to know this in favor of the masses who likely don't know
 or even care what version they are running. Or we can display a statistic
 which will be helpful to the power users who are seeing this update page
 more often than others and display information that is just as easily
 ignored to the masses.

 Running an update is something that will likely not be happening on a site
 with automatic background updates anyways, so that's almost a moot point.
 If the background update runs, then the whole point is that the user
 doesn't have to go to the update screen... so they wouldn't see it
 anyways. But those who do see the screen during an update will find it
 helpful, rather than having to jump back to the dashboard page which still
 (rather prominently) displays the current version number (I'd say in a
 place where it's of much less use than the page where you can essentially
 ''change'' the version you're running.

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