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Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Shawn Wilsher <sdwi...@mozilla.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:34:18 -0800
Local: Fri, Mar 6 2009 2:34 pm
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.1 becoming Firefox 3.5
On 3/6/09 11:29 AM, John J Barton wrote: > I suppose this all seems trivial from the inside. It's not the version Might I suggest that you use codenames (Shiretoko) in the future then? > checking that is any issue, it's the toll in human communications. Bug > reports, email, news postings all refer to 3.1. These all refer to > something that is now gone. Yes another version will come out called > 3.5, but '3.1' does not go away. Codenames are created for a reason. > Not changing the Gecko numbers compounds the problem by the way, since This isn't new. Firefox 2 shipped on Gecko 1.8.1, Firefox 1.5 shipped > .1 will not map to 3.1 means we have to keep track of the mapping rather > than just drop numbers. on 1.8.0, etc. It'll always be in the user agent, so I'm not sure why this is such an issue. > It's all annoyingly pointless. So as I said airing this and listening to Maybe it comes across as pointless from your perspective as an add-on > the rants ahead of time would make it easier to take. developer, but try putting yourself in the shoes of, say, a user who is wondering why 3.0 -> 3.1 contains so many changes. /sdwilsh You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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