> Am 19.09.2021 um 05:28 schrieb Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;: > > 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.