Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

ale wrote:
 > Il 20/08/2011 17.04, Ron Hunter ha scritto:
 >> Still, corporate needs shouldn't prevent prompt updates for security
 >> for either, and shouldn't prevent, or delay, making new features
 >> available to the consumer users (who have vastly greater numbers).
 >> That's not fair to the consumer users.
 >
 > You are right.
 >
 > Minor releases should be just for bug and security fixing (example:
 > from 3.6.18 to 3.6.20) and this could be automatic.
 >
 > Major release should be released just to introduce new features, and
 > this should NOT be an automatic update.
 >
 > The concept of continuous updates breaks this "old" habit and I don't
 > see a clear reason to go in this direction.
 > Production software give one or two major releases for year, and this
 > is enough in my oponion.

Yes, Ale, you are absolutely right that continuous updates breaks this 
old system of minor releases for security and major releases for 
features. That was well understood when Mozilla made the decision to 
move from the old system to the new rapid release cadence.

I understand that this is uncomfortable for some and simply impossible 
for others. That's the unfortunate trade-off that we felt we had to make 
when we moved from the old model to the new model.

But we're not done fine-tuning the new model and there may be ways we 
can lessen the difficulty for some who depended on the old model. If 
you've got suggestions for how to do that, please share.

- A