Ministro update: "Found new Qt libraries, tap to update"

[BogDan Vatra]

Hi Tomas,

I *always* announce the availability of new libs before they land on
stable repo. Ministro uses 3 different repos for libs:
 * unstable - this repo is used mostly by necessitas/qt developers, to
test our work, before we release a new SDK.
 * testing - this is the repo that I used to push new qt libs.
Immediately after I push new libs in this repo, I always announce them
on this ML and I *wait* at least two weeks before I move them to
stable repo. If *anyone* reports *any* regression I stop the release.
After I fix the problem, I push a new release to testing, then I
announce it here and of course wait for two more week for you to test
it.
 * stable - this is the default repository that is used by Ministro.
Here I pushed the libs only after nobody report no regression.

As you can see, I give everyone the chance to stop a release if he/she
founds any regressions. Not only for Necessitas SDK but also for Qt
5.x.

Last time I changed Necessitas it was in december, I fixed a crash
that happened on Android 4.4.

But, I think I can do the update safer (e.g. not replace the old libs
until the new ones are fully downloaded).

Cheers,
BogDan.



2014-01-30 tomasl <tomaslov at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Today, all our Android devices recieved the message Android status bar
> message: Ministro update: "Found new Qt libraries, tap to update".
>
> After tapping the message, Ministro re-downloaded all Qt libraries (25 Mb
> for our app).
>
> I have some questions regarding this.
>
> 1. Are you aware of that this has happened?
> 2. As this happened to all our devices, in addition to some user reports
> today, I assume that this has been the case for all Ministro users. Was this
> intended?
> 3. Was this a planned update of the libs? If so, was there any information
> given on beforehand that this would happen to all our users?
> 4. Our support department got some reports from users that tapped the
> Minstro message, but the download was interrupted (probably bad mobile
> connection for 25 Mb download). As the libs were not completely downloaded,
> our app could not be run anymore. As this is a business-critical production
> app with thousands of users, it's important for us to be able to foresee
> these kind of updates.
>
> Any thoughts on this? Any other user or developer stories related to this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomas
>
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