Bug 170079 - automatic update : option to prioritise renewable electricity
Summary: automatic update : option to prioritise renewable electricity
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.3.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Automatic-Updater
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Reported: 2025-12-21 11:51 UTC by Jérôme
Modified: 2025-12-21 19:56 UTC (History)
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new option added into the user settings (80.86 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics)
2025-12-21 11:51 UTC, Jérôme
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new options added into the user settings (81.51 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics)
2025-12-21 19:56 UTC, Jérôme
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Description Jérôme 2025-12-21 11:51:54 UTC
Created attachment 204746 [details]
new option added into the user settings

Currently, "Windows Updates is committed to helping reduce carbon emissions".

I propose that the automatic update of LibreOffice provides such a feature by focussing on renewable electricity. Basically, renewable electricity is more consensual than low carbon electricity (the later adds a few additional primary sources to the renewable primary sources).

Libreoffice could use a forecast service in order to choose the daily period for the update tasks when there is more renewable electricity. If this forecast service isn't available, then it could fallback to the solar zenith period by using the local time zone.

Since the daily period wouldn't be the same in all regions of a continent, this would help to distribute the charge to the download servers. Within the selected period, the updater could still add an random delay.

I attached a proposition in order to see this choice into the user settings.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2025-12-21 12:33:10 UTC
Lovely sentiment, just not feasible for a globally delivered application on a distributed Mirror network. 

-1 => WF
Comment 2 Jérôme 2025-12-21 12:55:45 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> Lovely sentiment, just not feasible for a globally delivered application on
> a distributed Mirror network. 
> 
> -1 => WF

If you use this feature only for the installation step (not for downlaod), then it would have no change on the distributed mirror network.
Comment 3 Jérôme 2025-12-21 19:56:38 UTC
Created attachment 204748 [details]
new options added into the user settings

Taking into account the comment #1 by deselecting the feature by default for the download step.