App update status – week of 11/20
20 November 2009It has been a good couple of weeks. There are several bugs I am relieved that are now fixed for Firefox 3.6… especially that we now check if Firefox is in use prior to updating and prevent launching Firefox during an update. Also, checking for updates for users that aren’t able to apply updates. Beltzner did his usual beltzner thing by catching what I see as a major usability flaw in that the original patch notified users repeatedly for the same release until Firefox was upgraded which I was able to fix. I’m still kicking myself for not catching that myself.
Progress:
- WOOT! Landed on trunk and 1.9.2 branch – Bug 407875 [Toolkit] – “Unprivileged users are not notified of security updates [All]“. The next bugs to fix that are similar are the dependent bugs of Bug 318855 [Toolkit] – “App update should provide method to update when the user doesn’t have privileges [All]“.
- Landed on trunk and 1.9.2 branch – Bug 510501 [Toolkit] – “not granting UAC permission to updater.exe causes full update to be downloaded [Windows]“. The next bug to fix that is similar is Bug 336267 [Toolkit] – “If software update is disabled or “ask” after an update has been downloaded, the update should be disabled or asked [All]“.
- Created a wiki page for the work on Bug 410639 [Toolkit] – “Provide ability to change update channel within the application [All]” and emailed dev-apps-firefox / dev-platform (followups to dev-apps-firefox) for this proposal.
Future targets (short work week so no way this will all get done):
- Bug 336267 [Toolkit] – “If software update is disabled or “ask” after an update has been downloaded, the update should be disabled or asked [All]“
- Investigate Bug 526441 [Toolkit] – “Unable to use FileUtils.jsm in nsExtensionManager.js.in on 1.9.2 due to reftest failures”.
- Yes, I still need to blog about the lessons I’ve learned while trying to improve startup time for app update but the Firefox 3.6 took precedence.
- Investigate Bug 529948 [Toolkit] – “Cannot check for updates on trunk when the download server is down” along with its friends
I’m taking Wednesday off so next week is a two day work week for me since Thursday and Friday are holidays.
One Response to “App update status – week of 11/20”
November 20th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
This is awesome work, Rob, and it’s really gonna help users in a significant way. Great work, great week.