[GSOC] Plugins Website Progress as of 29th July 2013

[Michael Secord]

On 7/30/2013 5:49 PM Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net> said unto Bhaskar 
Kandiyal <bkandiyal at gmail.com> and Pidgin Devel Mailing List 
<devel at pidgin.im>:

> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Bhaskar Kandiyal <bkandiyal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> maybe we could add a preference for when to check for updates with
>> options for daily, weekly etc. so the user is in control of things.
>
> I don't know how other people feel, but this doesn't feel important to
> me. I feel like we can make an intelligent guess at a good interval
> and users shouldn't need to worry about it. The pref doesn't feel
> important enough to justify its existence.
>
Could you not just integrate the update check with the Release 
notification plugin? That logically makes the most sense I think.