automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

[Mikus Grinbergs]

>> The "software update" facility assumes that a connection to the
>> network is already available when it gets to run.  If conditions are
>> such that the network connection has *not* been set up when booting
>> completes, should the action bar to request "software update" still
>> be automatically presented as the first thing the user sees ?
> 
> This is http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7947
> 
> It has been known for a while, but is non-trivial to implement and
> nobody has stepped up so far. It is also not quite as simple as
> delaying the update message: after an OS upgrade, it is important to
> inform the user straight away that their activities might not work
> until they run the activity updater.

I agree that the user who installs a new build ought to be 
cautioned.  But the success of the implementation depends entirely 
upon the correct reference list being provided "back at the ranch".

I have seen the wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/8.2 page list 
Activity versions that were *older* than those listed for "plain" 
G1G1.  And what about customized country deployments -- who will 
make sure that the activity updater accesses the set of Activities 
appropriate to the build someone in the hinterlands is installing ?

mikus