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What is the problem exactly? You don't like updates that improve things a lot? Really, it is just a version number.
by st3fan 15y ago
What is the problem exactly? You don't like updates that improve things a lot?
Really, it is just a version number.
- ck2 15y agoThey are MAJOR version numbers. Are all these going to major changes in GUI, API, backend? Are you okay with Version 20 by next December? Version 35 the December after that? Or should version 6 really be version 5.2 ?
- ordinary 15y agoThis really, really does not matter.
- jellicle 15y agoThe problem is that, like the boy that cried wolf, they have no way to get attention if they actually want it. Say that version 32 introduces a "do what I mean" feature where the browser simply goes to whatever site you want, no user interaction required. How are they going to publicize that version 32 is more important than 31 or 33 or 27, all of which were tiny incremental upgrades?
- ordinary 15y agoThey could name it Firefox XP, I guess. All silliness aside, I see your point. But is the browser really still at a point where such earth-shifting changes are likely to occur? The biggest single change of the last few years that I can think of is the addition of tabs to browers, and even that is a feature that's been around for 20 years in other programs. Any change that's much bigger than that almost warrants a whole new product, regardless of your numbering scheme.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- zobzu 15y agoSo? Is it suddenly bad if its version 20 or 409? It could also be 0.409 or 20112012 Or 0293.3948.2933.12.409 Or FE39D9A of all these, 409 is the most readable anyway.
- tom9729 15y agoIf the version number is meaningless (hint: it doesn't have to be) then why bother mentioning it at all?
- tom9729 15y agoVersion numbers aren't meaningless if you have a good system, e.g. major/minor/patch. You just can't use them to compare between two different products. I know Moz wants to be a bit more like Chrome with frequent releases but it seems like this could be done a bit more sensibly wrt the version number.
- wmf 15y agoWhen you release every six weeks, there will never be a major release. Thus you end up with version numbers like 2.6.39.
- tom9729 15y ago1) The patch number is for things like bug and security fixes, and gets reset every time the major/minor version gets bumped. 2) Every 6 week release you bump the minor version _unless_ some big feature(s) are ready to be rolled in, in which case you bump the major version instead.