Darren Oh wrote:
Why so many hostile reactions to Oswald's project? Read his message again. He's not proposing a site that updates itself. He's promoting automatic downloads and automatic uprades.
Where's the difference between "a sites that updates itself" and "automatic upgrades"? I can't spot any.
An administrator could select the modules to be installed or upgraded and it would happen automatically.
What he asked for was collaboration on a system to detect which modules have updates available.
What he's working on is inevitable. Manual module installation and upgrading creates many opportunities for inexperienced users to make mistakes.
Inexperienced users shouldn't be running a public service such as a website. They should read and follow the docs and thus be no longer inexperienced. Cheers, Gerhard