753103 - Only bump the update xml's appVersion attribute once a week

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: Release Automation: Other, defect, P3)

Description

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

This is for https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Rapid_Betas work - when we move to rapid betas, we will want to be sure that non-admin Windows users aren't getting updates every single day.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

rstrong, could you elaborate how bumping/not-bumping appVersion helps here ? For the current updates on beta we have appVersion set to (eg) 13.0 for all the betas, and the same for platformVersion. The displayVersion and buildID do change, as well as the <patch> lines.

Comment 2

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Hey Nick, the appVersion determines the preference name to use for users that don't have privileges to update so they don't get notified repeatedly similar to how the "Not Now" button works.

Also, I found a regression in the code that makes it so users that don't have privileges to update would get notified. I am considering just making it another pref that defines how long to wait until re-notifying users that don't have privileges to update in which case this won't be necessary. Since the beta channel doesn't ever increment appVersion it might be better to go this route anyways since that can also affect extension checks, etc.

Comment 3

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

Robert, please confirm whether this bug carries any remaining actions, and where you're tracking the pref for non-admin prompting.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Does this still make sense these days? We keep appVersion the same for an entire cycle so I doubt it...