Am 19.09.2021 um 05:28 schrieb Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>:
See this thread
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-September/077329.html
for some good rational from Patrick Riehecky (which refers to the Fedora
wiki), and this bugzilla issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2004572
Personally, I agree with Pat -- on by default is a good choice -- but I also
think that at the least, we should also turn on notifications by default.
An interesting thread! I am unsure, however, to what extent I am "(not) amused"
by your suggestion to enable the 'automatically apply updates' feature in Fedora
Server by default as a kind of field test for CentOS. :-)
In any case, I would include this topic in our post-installation documentation. That's
really an omission right now.
I consider it a very good idea to enable the 'notify' option via pre-installation.
I don't know if this would still be possible for Fedora 35.
But for this to be really effective, we need a real e-mail address (or rather a list) for
root as part of the installation procedure. However, this means a change in Anaconda - a
pretty major operation. Alternatively, we could reactivate the earlier 'First
Boot' routine and put that in there. That might be easier and sooner to implement (and
a UX test bed for an Anaconda change).
This matter is very serious and we should definitely urge the administrator to consider
and make a decision - in Anaconda, kick file or firstboot. And if an administrator does
not care and there is no real address for a notifications email, then maybe a default of
'apply' is an expedient solution.