Updates – please don’t

  • Resolved frenchomatic

    (@frenchomatic)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    This is going to sound harsh but it is not meant to be.

    I am concerned that you intend to push out updates every week or so in 2018 – from your blog. I don’t see the point of doing that. For those of us with multiple sites it will drive us nuts. One well tested update every 2-3 months makes much more sense – the plugin is fairly mature already. For many where some customization has been carried out it will be difficult to keep up. From a webmaster’s point of view managing multiple client sites at this frequency is not realistic or economic.

    I have 15 web sites using your plugin and it will mean 15 updates + 15 lots of minor customisation + 15 cache clears + 15 cloudflare cache clears. The cache clearing puts quite a bit of load on the server.

    And here is the issue. If I don’t update at such frequency can you guarantee that in say 3 months time an update will work and the options selected already will not need resetting?

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  • I second that. My dev team is fed up with these frequent updates. We notice that sometimes it’s breaking minor functionalities and we have to spend one week to figure out, correct and reinstate the traffic. I see in 2017, there had 2-3 updates and bug fixes on within few days. We like to be updated with technology, but please…please check thoroughly before pushing the versions and avoid very frequent updates.

    Plugin Author Mohammed Kaludi

    (@mohammed_kaludi)

    I have been reading and thinking about this since yesterday. I agree with you but we’re not going to apply the 2017 strategy in 2018.

    Give me some time while I give me point of view and I expect your honest opinion on it.

    What about beta channels per week and stable per month?

    Plugin Author Mohammed Kaludi

    (@mohammed_kaludi)

    @szmigieldesign yes, we are hoping to do the similar thing. But wait sometime. I’ll explain the whole cycle in a blog post.

    Thread Starter frenchomatic

    (@frenchomatic)

    Frequency greater than bi-monthly is too much unless it is a serious security problem, a major release or a new version of wordpress breaks everything. Issuing beta releases is the way to go but they should not be pushed to the admin panel.

    Plugin Author Ahmed Kaludi

    (@ahmedkaludi)

    Hi @frenchomatic @kodiyan @szmigieldesign

    I totally understand your perspective and respect that you are trying to help.

    We will be only fixing the bugs in the weekly releases.

    There will be major updates which will be released every two to three months, which will have a beta release.

    @frenchomatic

    If you don’t update at such frequency, I can guarantee that in say 3 months time an update will work, and you don’t have to reset any options.

    We are taking some extra measures this year to make sure that updates are stable and clean.

    Thank you.

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