Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Asa Dotzler schrieb:
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> 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!
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> 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."

Well, you also have the date in there, just disguised behind "today". ;-)

All in all, I think we're not that far apart anyhow. The problem is 
mostly communication. :)

Robert Kaiser

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