Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Asa,

Having read this entire thread, I'd like to say a couple of things:

First, thanks to others exploring your points without being you (and
therefore being tainted by a preconception of condescension), you've
convinced me that removing the version number from About Firefox isn't
really a problem. I can just treat Troubleshooting as "About The
Program (for power users)" and About as "About The Project (for
novices)".

The real issue is that, as some people argued vehemently while trying
to justify keeping the version number, you didn't wait until people
were used to the rapid release schedule, so people latch onto the idea
that your insistence on removing the version number now rather than
later is proof that it's a measure to help sneak in another unpopular
measure (rapid release schedule).

Second, I agree that the rapid release schedule is really what has a
lot of people up in arms and I can see only two truly valid complaints
to it:

1. We need some kind of mechanism for rolling back rapid releases so
we can just let them happen normally without getting tons of grief
when, by sheer power of probability, we eventually find ourselves in
another "Firefox 5 breaks TiddlyWiki import/sync" situation. (On that
one, I'm just glad the download URLs for Firefox 5 were easy to edit
into valid download URLs for the newest point release of Firefox 4)

The issue thread for that problem is at https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/tiddlywiki/issues/38
in case anyone's curious, by the way.

2. There has to be a well-publicized replacement for "ye olde slow-
track release notes" (at the very least, for all new features, major
and minor) for people like me who are too overworked and prone to
distraction to drink from the Planet Mozilla firehose without drowning
themselves.

Solving those issues, making the solutions well-known, and clarifying
the roles of About and Troubleshooting should address every rational,
non-enterprise complaint that I remember reading.

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