suggestions for serendipity_event_dashboard

[bernd_d]

I would have 2 possible improvements for serendipity_event_dashboard...

1. If no update for s9y is available, there could be a message

current final/beta on server: 1.5.5
your installation is up-to-date, no update needed

because i am always confused by not seeing anything.

2. The spartacus-update-check should be included into dashboard, so we don't need to go into plugin-section to check for sidebar- or event-updates.

[yellowled]

I would have 2 possible improvements for serendipity_event_dashboard

You'll most likely want to report these to the http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=17274 "Auto-Updater" thread in the "Upcoming Serendipity features" forum since the two plugins are now more or less connected.

YL

[onli]

No, please not. That is pure dashboard-functionality. The autoupdater won't work without the dashboardplugin, but they are not merged. Also, i don't intend to adopt the dashpord-plugin atm, and i am not sure those suggestions would be seen there.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Hm, I'm also not yet decided whether always having output there is a good idea; it crowds the screen for actually no information. I mean, your browser or other applications also do not bug you with information that it's up to date?

I'm open to discussion of course, what do you others think?

Regards,
Garvin

[Timbalu]

I'm open to discussion of course, what do you others think?

Well, normaly, I would say: its up to the user to keep self installed systems up to date, but in case of real vulnerables this isn't good, since Serendipity is known a long time as very stable and not buggy. This is why there are lots of old versions running, without keeping contact to the forum or the s9y-blog. Even now there are users with actual questions in the forum, which did not upgrade to 1.5.5....
I think to keep this good reputation in future, it is at least a must to have a buildin notifier, as I recommended before.

Ian

[onli]

Think you misunderstood the question :)

Bernd suggested to use the notifier of the dashboardplugin to print a notification like "Your version of serendipity is up-to-date".