I am against full automatic updates. For anyone here who picked full automatic updates...will you continue to charge your clients the same rate even though WP is doing the updates?

I have my main site. I am redoing the theme but before that I was blogging at least once or twice a week. It took me no more than 5 minutes to update.

If it's taking you long then you should look at deleted any extra themes you have on your site that are not active. Also same thing for plugins and look at the amount of plugins, less plugins = less updates.

What I worry is for my daily tech gadget reviews...I play with the gadgets/toys then write about them. I usually write the whole week in advance...However in 2013 I started doing the whole month in advance. They all get scheduled in to each day.

Wasn't there a fake WordPress version? 2.6.4 or something like that? What if someone hacks into a theme/plugin author's account on the repository and uploads an 'infected' upgrade?

I am not saying anything bad about the people that check on themes/plugins when they are upgraded but as WP gets popular, there will be more themes/plugins and one could slip in.

I think it is complete lazyness if you want WordPress to do all 3 updates (core/theme/plugins).