[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #50988: Provide option to disable emails about auto-updates

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#50988: Provide option to disable emails about auto-updates
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 Reporter:  Paddy Landau     |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  5.5.1
Component:  Upgrade/Install  |     Version:  5.5
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion      |     Focuses:  administration
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Comment (by desrosj):

 I too have seen a fairly significant volume of auto-update emails because
 I have a large handful of sites. I enjoy the oversight for a single site
 that these provide, but when you have multiple sites (which usually means
 a common set of plugins), it can be overwhelming. I'm not sold that an
 on/off switch is best, though.

 Thinking through a few adjustments that could be explored (these are back
 of napkin ideas not hard suggestions):

 - Only send emails for failures. This is tricky because even updates that
 are successfully applied could be "breaking" for certain sites with
 combinations of plugins/themes.
 - Send a "digest" email for successful emails weekly instead of when the
 update is applied. This will prevent multiple emails for the same plugin
 updating multiple times in a short span of time (maybe for bug fixes) but
 still inform site owners of all update events that took place for a site.
 - Expand the auto-update related Site Health section to include a list of
 plugins and theme auto-update events.
 - A page under Tools that lists the most recent auto-update events for
 plugins and themes.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50988#comment:11>
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