Quick question about what happens to the previous snapshot release after a new one is released? For example would the extensions to the previous one (202009) will continue to be updated? If not, we might have to consider letting the people know that there is a newer stable release (as oppose to the…

Extensions are only built/updated for the latest stable and preview (not for Slicer-4.11.20200930). [image] muratmaga: Perhaps auto check Slicer stable releases monthly at the startup and just let users know. It would be nice to implement automatic update checks. It could also give us a bett…

As a user, I am not fond of extensive telemetry (particularly if we are not going to act on that data). But some automated way of comparing release numbers, and popping up an informative message that says something like: “A new stable version is available. Your version is no longer kept up to date …

As a user I’m not fond of (mostly I don’t care about) telemetry, but as a developer you know how useful it is. I think this is very little to ask, but of course users could opt out of update checks.

I’m sure there are users on both ends of the spectrum of whether they think the telemetry provides helpful benefits or think it is spying. My impression is most users want Slicer to “just work” so alerting of the latest version of the application or extension with bug fixes would be appreciated. I …

I agree that most users are probably fine with update checks and fine with it being turned on by default (with a warning dialog on first install).

I agree, this is very acceptable… Particularly you get the benefit of getting notifications.

A pull request has just been submitted that implements this feature. Feedback is welcome (by commenting on the pull request). Add check for available application updates Slicer:main ← lassoan:app-update-check opened 04:38…

Snapshot release updates and user notification

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fedorov (Andrey Fedorov) March 4, 2021, 2:02pm 8

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Snapshot release updates and user notification

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