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Gary No it isn’t time. Obviously it’s on the radar – core supports automatic updating of major versions, as well as plugins and themes, but it’s not ready to be turned on by default. I’m the most eager person in the world to see this happen, but rushing into it (and adding some UI for disabling it as a fallback) is absolutely the wrong way to go about it. Will it happen? Of course. There are plenty of plugins and services that encourage it, Jetpack Manage is the just the latest in a long line. But when we’re talking about auto-updating nearly a quarter of the internet, we have to take it in baby steps. We need to be confident enough in the update process, in core’s backwards compatibility, and in the failure handling that we’re not going to break millions of sites. For the same reason we’re not ready to drop PHP 5.2 compatibility in new WordPress versions, we can’t just turn on auto updates and hope for the best. Even breaking a few percent of sites means millions of people inconvenienced, tens or hundreds of thousands of businesses with their online presence taken away.
Gary
No it isn’t time.
Obviously it’s on the radar – core supports automatic updating of major versions, as well as plugins and themes, but it’s not ready to be turned on by default. I’m the most eager person in the world to see this happen, but rushing into it (and adding some UI for disabling it as a fallback) is absolutely the wrong way to go about it.
Will it happen? Of course. There are plenty of plugins and services that encourage it, Jetpack Manage is the just the latest in a long line. But when we’re talking about auto-updating nearly a quarter of the internet, we have to take it in baby steps. We need to be confident enough in the update process, in core’s backwards compatibility, and in the failure handling that we’re not going to break millions of sites.
For the same reason we’re not ready to drop PHP 5.2 compatibility in new WordPress versions, we can’t just turn on auto updates and hope for the best. Even breaking a few percent of sites means millions of people inconvenienced, tens or hundreds of thousands of businesses with their online presence taken away.
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