[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #48850: Plugins Screen: introduce "Automatic updates" column / option

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#48850: Plugins Screen: introduce "Automatic updates" column / option
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 Reporter:  jeherve                  |       Owner:  audrasjb
     Type:  feature request          |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  5.4
Component:  Plugins                  |     Version:  3.7
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing  |     Focuses:  administration,
  has-screenshots dev-feedback       |  multisite
  needs-dev-note needs-design        |
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Comment (by audrasjb):

 Yes @desrosj. And I can also easily imagine several realistic use cases.
 Here is some of them:

 - Users who experimented some issues with one of the plugins they use, and
 who don't trust them so much (even if they are objectively wrong).

 - Users who want to deactivate updates for a specific plugin because it
 was modified with the plugin editor screen (this possibility is proposed
 by default in WordPress admin so we should take it into account).

 - Users who don't want to update some "critical" plugins before they have
 been tested in a staging, preprod, development or even their local
 environment.

 - Users who don't want to update some "critical" plugins because they
 think (even if they are wrong) that it's better, for this "critical"
 plugin, to wait few days to see if a patched release is provided by the
 plugin author after a major update.

 Same goes for themes. @johnjamesjacoby @SergeyBiryukov I personally think
 this is why we should leave the possibility to toggle autoupdate item by
 item.

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 @johnjamesjacoby
 > In my imagination, these two together, along with how WordPress already
 works, lead me to believe and expect that minor releases for plugins &
 themes would auto-update, and majors would be opt-in.
 Maybe I'm wrong but I believe there is no standardized difference between
 major and minor for plugins. Plugin authors can use WordPress versioning
 naming system, SemVer or even just the date they released their new
 version (like 20200205) or other custom versioning systems.

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