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Dave Townsend  
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 More options Mar 6 2009, 1:57 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:57:57 +0000
Local: Fri, Mar 6 2009 1:57 pm
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.1 becoming Firefox 3.5
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On 6/3/09 18:52, John J Barton wrote:

> Mike Shaver wrote:
>> As was discussed at the delivery meeting yesterday, we're proposing to

> Sorry I missed this notice yesterday. I don't think this change is
> helplful at this late date in the 3.1 work.

>> change the version number of Shiretoko from 3.1 to 3.5. The increase in
>> scope represented by TraceMonkey and Private Browsing, plus the sheer
>> volume of work that's gone into everything from video and layout to
>> places and the plugin service make it a larger increment than we
>> believe is reasonable to
>> label ".1". 3.5 will help set expectations better about the amount of
>> awesome that's packed into Shiretoko, and we expect uptake help from
>> that as
>> well.

> As a PR move this is hard to understand. If you sit close you think,
> "Ok, 3.1 is slipping so they need to make the target bigger." From far way:
> 2.0.0.8
> ...
> 2.0.0.12
> 3.0.0
> ...
> 3.0.7
> 3.5

> So what follows this trend? (Seems silly on both extremes to me).

The release will be 3.5. Security updates will be delivered as 3.5.1,
3.5.2 etc. I believe the intention is to always use a 3 part version
number in the future, Firefox 2 was the only exception to that.

>> Work is underway to make sure that we can get the version identifiers
>> updated in relevant places like AMO, bugzilla, crash-stats and tinderbox
>> with minimal disruption. Those changes will start to roll out this week.

> Well out here in extensions land, we've been relying on the upcoming
> 3.1. In fact we have been getting badgered to prepare for it. Now its
> suddenly gone. Should I really renumber our extension and all our bug
> reports? Maybe I better wait to see what really ships?

It isn't suddenly gone, it will just be called something different. It
doesn't affect the timing of the release at all, so if you were relying
on 3.1 you are now relying on 3.5. I'm not sure why you would need to
renumber your extension based on this, unless you mean the maxVersion
and that is a fairly simple change to the update manifest (or in the
developer panel in AMO once they enable support for the new versions).

Dave


 
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