Software versions
Mid 2008
There was lot of campaigning to create a record downloads for Firefox 3.0 in 24 hours. Like everybody else I upgraded on that day. It was a successful campaign.
Later that year …
Chrome debuted. Though it was missing many features and extensions, I loved the look and feel of the browser. I started to use both Chrome and Firefox for more than a year.
Early 2011
Chrome is my primary browser now. I heard about release of FF4 from a friend of mine who went to a FF4 launch party. I played around with it and I am sure it has improved a ton but -
it’s not Chrome!
Today
I was checking how some scripts will work in FF and I got a popup asking to upgrade to FF8!!! I am very surprised at so many major releases in the last eight months. What ever happened to minor version number?
The other day I also found out Fedora is at 16. Last one I used was 10 and then moved to Ubuntu more than a year back.
With so many releases - I wonder if major version numbers of software make sense anymore. Perhaps one should consider time based version numbers - include year/month/ in major version to keep track of progress.
What do you think?
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