User:Mstone/Rainflow

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Carrying on the tradition of naming software via puns, I'll lay down some thoughts on how to answer the question:

When should our software automatically do risky thing X?

Background

People have been concerned with this question (and with variants and related questions) for some time:

<trac>5657</trac>, on spoofing-resistant update algorithms for de-isolated activities
questions on activity signing and update thread
activity semantics conversation
runtime build customization thread and <trac>6432</trac>
user-created activities and updates thread
horizontal distribution thread
homunq's ideas on bundles and updates

the devil is truly in the details.


Consequently, here's an attempt at details.