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Mark Banner  
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 More options May 31 2011, 6:06 am
From: Mark Banner <mban...@mozilla.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 11:06:26 +0100
Local: Tues, May 31 2011 6:06 am
Subject: Re: Version number changes for Thunderbird
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On 31/05/2011 10:11, Ben Bucksch wrote:

> On 26.05.2011 20:06, Mark Banner wrote:
>> We'll also be de-emphasising the version numbers in our releases, it
>> is much more important that users keep up to date with the latest
>> security and stability fixes, and of course latest improvements, than
>> being concerned that a jump from one number to the next is a big jump.

> FYI, that *is* an important information, though. There are developers
> and companies with big deployments which need to know how much work
> they have to expect, due to API and profile file changes, UI changes
> etc..

I think if they assess the amount of worked based on the version number
increment, then that is going to give a very poor indication of the
amount of work. For example, with the old system, what if we did a
whole-number version bump, but only actually implemented one big new
feature without changing other APIs, and without affecting their
integration. They would assume a lot of work, when in fact it would be
very little.

Likewise, with a minor version bump, we could have changed a lot of
APIs, but not actually implemented many new features, and they would
then have a lot of work to do.

Surely it is better to give the new release some assessment (e.g. a
quick test, brief investigation into the code), rather than rely on a
version number increment?

> Question: Will we end up with Thunderbird 15 in a year's time (and TB
> 25 in 2 years), or what's the plan?

Yes, we'll get numbers that big.

Mark.

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