[TYPO3-dev] EM - Autoupdate Extension

[Tomas Norre Mikkelsen]

Hi,

I don't know whom or where to write this message, so if its the wrong 
place I hope you can point me into the right direction.

We want to be able to keep our TYPO3 instances up to date, even better 
than already done.

How about create a schedule-task for sysext EM (extension manager) that 
allow certain whitelisted extensions to be auto update when new updates 
available.

This could be done in various ways, but I'm thinking something like this:

Extensions like realurl, static_info_tables etc. is most likely to be 
updated without future issues/problems.

If the developer can mark and extension as autoUpdateable, you as 
maintainer could accept or overrule this decission by a locale 
whitelisting of extensions.

I don't know if there is any plans in the future for topics like this, 
or if the TYPO3 SURF project will take over in the future. But till the 
future kicks in, i think this could be a step forward to keeping TYPO3 
instances up to date.

Is my idea understandable and what do you think?

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Best Regards
Tomas Norre Mikkelsen

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