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Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Kevin Brosnan <kbros...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 02:30:22 -0500
Local: Sat, Mar 7 2009 2:30 am
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.1 becoming Firefox 3.5
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 02:05, eternalsword <micah.b...@gmail.com> wrote: Mozilla has no history of using the odd/even system. Every time it is > The problem as I see it is that there is no consistent numbering > scheme. I've always found it easier to follow in this sort of method: > The first number represents a long term goal achievement (anything > that would require breaking current release branch's API, unless for > security, or something like 'reach full HTML5 support'); second number > is the development phase toward fixing bugs on the current branch, or > backporting trunk additions that don't break the API, with even > numbers being stable releases and odd numbers being development; and > third is for security updates and the third number only shows up with > an even second number since development versions are in-flux anyways. > Trunk is then where development occurs for the next long term goal > achievement. I'm not familiar with the API changes, etc, but I would > hazard a guess that using this method, there would be 3.0.x security > releases as there are currently, 3.1 development releases as there are > currently, and upcoming release would be 3.2, followed by 3.2.x > security releases and 3.3 development branch. brought up a dev comes along and says Mozilla has not used that scheme in the past and they are not about to switch just because it is popular in the Linux world. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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