Hi all,

I'm responsible for Orchard instances across about 10 web servers. I'd love a module that would automatically download and install updated themes/modules, and ping me when in does. I was wondering whether there might be any gotchas ahead. I figure I'll I'll just need a table to keep track of which modules to download, a service to periodically check for updates, and just hook into the built-in module download/install code.

I'm not an expert at building modules so I thought I'd raise it to see what alarm bells it might set off or whatever.

Thanks

I wouldn't do this in a production environment because there's always a chance that new versions of  modules or themes have bugs. Even if they don't have bugs, they might be intended to work with certain versions of Orchard, so if you base Orchard version is the wrong one the modules could break. 

I'm not even a fan of installing modules through the dashboard. I'd rather build them, test them, and then deploy them along with my entire orchard site. 

Yeah that's a good point. We already have automated deployment in place so I'll look at including our modules and theme

We recommend not installing modules on a production server, especially in a farm. Install on a dev machine, then deploy.