Firefox snap updates for non-technical users

[Keith]

On 9/1/22 6:38 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, dem 01.09.2022 um 12:22 +0100 schrieb Colin Law:
>> On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 11:37, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> snapd will not
>>> update the app as long as it finds it running
>>
>> Oh, so to summarise, does that mean that at the moment with 22.04, if
>> FF (or any other snap for that matter) is running most of the time
>> then @Ian Bruntlett is correct in that it will not auto-update?  That
>> is a bit of a downer.
> 
> i will force-upgrade quietly after the 60 day period, even if the app
> is running ... and will keep nagging you a few times per day until the
> upgrade ...
> 

I think you mean a 14 day period. 60 days is the period for how long you 
used to be able to "hold" refreshes on all snaps with refresh.hold=<some 
RFC 3339 formatted date>. Although now I believe the duration has been 
increased to 90 days before a forced update occurs for any and all snaps 
that have updates available.

But for individual snaps that couldn't be updated because they were 
running at the time of the refresh cycle, its only 14 days before snapd 
will force an update whether its running or not. The notification 
message you get spells that out.

Of course, if your snap isn't running by the next refresh cycle (default 
  is 4 times daily at random intervals during a 24 hour period), then it 
will be updated. Problem is is that the users won't know when that'll be 
without dropping to the command line and issuing "snap refresh --time" 
to find out when the next refresh cycle will occur.

There's definite room for improvement to make the snap update process 
more smoother for the user.

-- 
Keith