RFC: Volta Updates

[charlespierce]

Provide a path for users to keep Volta up-to-date, ranging from notifications that updates are available to automatic background updates.

Rendered RFC

[mikrostew]

Looks awesome overall, I am excited for this!

[dherman]

This looks good to me! And on some of the detailed UX questions in the discussion, we can probably learn more from implementation experience and experimentation.

[rwjblue]

A few points after some discussion in this weeks volta call:

• I would like to see a little bit more information about what a "managed" installation needs to actually do in order to run an update. After reading the RFC this isn't 100% obvious.
• I think that this RFC should describe a "kill switch" for the initial version. Specifically, I believe that it is fundamentally impossible for us to fully account for everything we might ever need. My proposal here would be to have the published update bundle that is downloaded (tarballs, zip files, etc) include a file that specifically indicates "updater-protocol-version". This should be a required check for both the self installed user and the managed user update scenarios.

[rwjblue]

Thank you for the updates!