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0 pointsroca5y ago0 comments

Releases are almost always date-based, but once in a while a release is delayed. I guess that's a bit easier if the release number is not a date.

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glandium5y ago

There's also the fact that Firefox is now on a 4 weeks release cycle, which means there will be months with two releases. (and that's ignoring chemspill releases)

afiori5y ago

Then if not year.month they can use year.counter where counter goes from 1 to 14 = ceil(366/28)

throwaway20485y ago

i mean, whats the problem with the version going up 2 numbers rather than 1?

rocaOP5y ago

It's suboptimal to have to change the number of the next release during a release cycle. That would mean, for example, that Firefox Nightly 2020.11 might correspond to a Firefox release 2020.12.

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