Plugin updates

It seems like getting plugins to consistently update has been an issue ever since the auto-update feature has been available. I understand that the issues can range from various incompatibilities to just plain bad timing.

Problem is, when they fail, I don’t know how many attempts were made if all failed were attempted again, or if ANY were attempted again and what the timing was on ANY of that.

With security being a priority, it seems there would be some kind of report available – that can be turned on or off – that can be emailed and/or viewed in the management interface, that would provide these and other details.

Can this current plugin auto-update capability get some additional features a webmaster can set/use to help push updates through that might get delayed for any given reason and help her/she/him/he/they/them/those/it better understand and debug why the fails?

• Set a time period to try updates again – this might help when too many updates were attempted at the same time.
• Set how many times to retry the failed updates – maybe setting the delay time.
• Set the order of which updates go first, then second, etc., as in do the Theme updates first, then the plugin updates, then the WP version update.
• Send an alert after attempting to complete multiple updates with a list of those that still failed.
• Other settings?
  
  I’ve noticed that some plugins are being removed from the repository. I also see the warnings that some plugins have not been updated in recent times. I remove these plugins as these are clearly potential issues at best. This surely reflects on the importance of doing better on updates.