| uip | title | description | author | status | type | category | created |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0114 |
OTA approval |
Kiln can optionally prompt users for approval before applying pending updates |
~tinnus-napbus |
Review |
Standards Track |
Kernel |
2023-08-21 |
Kiln subscribes to +(let) for the revision number of a desk (a %w care).
When it gets the response, it tells Clay to initiate a merge for that revision.
Instead of immediately initiating the merge, it should record the availability of an update in state & ask the user to approve it by sending a a gift out on a subscription path. The user can then approve the update in the front-end which will poke kiln to proceed with the merge.
Kiln should be able to enable global auto-updates, so the user doesn't need to approve if they don't want to. Individual desks should also be able to be set to auto/manual, and this should override global settings.
Currently users have little control over updates and don't know when things have been updated. They can disable updates for a desk, but then don't know if there have been any further updates they might want to install. Users should have more control & be notified when updates are available.
Kiln should have an extra ? added to the sync-state that tracks whether an
update is available to be merged.
Kiln should have a ? added to state that enables/disables global auto-merges.
Kiln should have an extra (unit ?) added to the sync-state that specifies
whether updates should be auto-merged. If null it should fall back to the
global setting.
Kiln should have a poke added that approves & initiates merging of an available update.
Kiln should have a poke added that sets the global auto-merge flag.
Kiln should have a poke added that sets the auto-merge flag for a particular sync.
TBD
No backward compatibility issues found.
None
No apparent security issues apart from obviously needing to check =(src our)
for pokes.
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