| 24 | | That's correct, it isn't possible to remotely toggle it, I don't believe that adding such a flag wouldn't really give us any practical benefit. The flag would have to be provided by the w.org update API, which sites check every 12 hours. If there were some dire emergency, we would be able to push out a 4.9.9 release with the meta box hidden, and because of the lag time in sites checking the API, it would have approximately the same rate of uptake as an API flag would. (We would presumably drop the update check TTL as soon as we decided to push out 4.9.9, so all sites would be updated in 12 hours from that point, the only practical difference would be the earliest set of sites to check the API would hide the meta box a little later.) |
| | 24 | That's correct, it isn't possible to remotely toggle it, I don't believe that adding such a flag would give us any practical benefit. The flag would have to be provided by the w.org update API, which sites check every 12 hours. If there were some dire emergency, we would be able to push out a 4.9.9 release with the meta box hidden, and because of the lag time in sites checking the API, it would have approximately the same rate of uptake as an API flag would. (We would presumably drop the update check TTL as soon as we decided to push out 4.9.9, so all sites would be updated in 12 hours from that point, the only practical difference would be the earliest set of sites to check the API would hide the meta box a little later.) |