Re: No plans to change the version number scheme

On 2011-09-27, at 5:45 PM, Peter Sinnott wrote:

> On Aug 23, 10:08 pm, Ron Hunter <[email protected]> wrote :
>> The trouble with open development is that something proposed, as an
>> issue for discussion, can be seized upon and blown way out of
>> proportion.  I am somewhat surprised that some of the comments made a
>> while back about 'forced updates' weren't jumped on.  Or maybe they
>> were, and the people who saw them just fled like scared jackrabbits.  We
>> can't know.  Probably, in view of recent press, developers should
>> consider how users, who lurk around here, might react to a proposal, and
>> make sure everyone understands it is a proposal, not an established
>> fact, or 'direction'.
> 
> 
> So you are saying people who thought "It is part of the phasing out of
> version numbers in Firefox that's already well under way"  was
> evidence of a completed decision and not a proposal are mistaken?

Yes. They are mistaken. Albeit understandably so.

J

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Johnathan Nightingale
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