Re:Firefox 71
by coldpie on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @01:35PM
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I'm not sure what you mean by "more typical." If you mean the "major.minor.bugfix" thing that was the norm for a while, I think we've all realized it's basically useless. So many projects had no criteria for incrementing the major number, so it would just sit at 0. or 1. forever, informing no one of anything. So don't think of it as "a new major version every couple of weeks," think of it as dropping the implied (and useless) "1." major version with a new minor release every couple of weeks :-)
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But now actual major changes are unnecessarily hard to communicate to non-technical users. If e.g. the "quantum" activation could have been celebrated with a once-in-a-couple-of-years major increment, far more people would have taken notice, with much less marketing effort. A rarely incremented major number is a marketing tool, a continually incremented number is merely a vector clock.