Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Ron Hunter wrote:
> On 8/16/2011 10:16 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote:
>> Asa Dotzler schrieb:
>>> Tyler Downer wrote:
>>>> Somewhat along these lines, maybe we should change to a date
>>>> versioning scheme, somewhat like Ubuntu. Firefox 8.11 or something.
>>>
>>> We're not going to change the format, that's just rearranging deck
>>> chairs on the titanic, we're going to obsolete the entire feature of
>>> version numbers.
>>
>> Maybe Tyler has a point in some way and we should display "Current
>> Firefox release as of 2011-08-16" or so - which is very near to Limi and
>> your proposal, actually. ;-)
>>
>> Robert Kaiser
>>
>>
> I'll buy that!


Why not put the hour and minute there? Seems those would be more 
valuable than the year. Full year, month, day, hour, minute seems a bit 
long. Let's drop the year, month, and day, and just go with hour and 
minute. "Firefox checked and you are using the latest version as of 
11:01 am today."

- A