I merged two threads :-)
On Thu 13. 10. 2005 17:16, Sebastian Mendel wrote:
Marc Delisle wrote:
I think that download stats about themes indicate
correctly the
popularity. Besides, each user of a multi-user installation can
choose his theme, so you want each user to participate in the
registration?
no, not really - only a 'installation'-registration
Well I'd forget this until we have setup script. You can then easily add
this as part of installation, however right now it will be more
annoying:
On Thu 13. 10. 2005 17:14, Sebastian Mendel wrote:
Michal Čihař wrote:
On Thu 13. 10. 2005 12:24, Sebastian Mendel
wrote:
this can be stored local, or at least a hash over
all, to
recognize changes and update registration
stored where? in pmadb? this is currently only place where you can
save anything, but it is not enabled on most installations
or just in a file (just test for write privilelgs, if not no error)
In most cases you can not write to file, so you will silently fail and
still offer registration?
- send security alerts on specific versions
You can't handle this as vendors often backport security patches,
so you don't know whether version user has installed is really
vulnerable.
alerts only on first time to 'registered' users with this version to
given email adress - when the security alert comes the first the
vendors will mostly not have applied any patch adressing this issue
Wrong, if you install some distribution, you will get patched version,
but it is usually not current one (especially "enterprise" distribution
release cycles are very long, so you might have 3 years old patched
version). This will only force vendors to disable such checks, you can
see how similar feature in Firefox is mostly disabled in distributions.
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