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Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Mike Shaver <mike.sha...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:43:47 -0500
Local: Fri, Mar 6 2009 2:43 pm
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.1 becoming Firefox 3.5
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:29 PM, John J Barton
<johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com> wrote: Firefox and Gecko versions aren't necessarily in numbering > Not changing the Gecko numbers compounds the problem by the way, since .1 > will not map to 3.1 means we have to keep track of the mapping rather than > just drop numbers. synchronization -- in fact, FF3 is the first time they have been in that numerical sync that I can recall. (FF 1.0 was 1.7.5, 1.1-which-became-1.5 was 1.8.0, FF2 was 1.8.1, right?) > It's all annoyingly pointless. I explained the point in my previous posts (and on the delivery meeting); it seems pretty uncharitable to claim that there is no point to it, even if you believe that there are downsides. We know there are downsides, as there are for virtually every interesting decision we make in developing software. > So as I said airing this and listening to That's precisely why we put it on the agenda for the delivery meeting, > the rants ahead of time would make it easier to take. discussed it there, put it on devnews, and posted the proposal here. It was also reported by a fair number of press folk, so I think it was pretty visible. The change isn't going to manifest in beta 3, so there are 6 weeks at Mike You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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