Timeline for Firefox versions going to infinity – should we merge the tags?
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| Mar 8, 2012 at 22:04 | comment | added | Psycogeek | @sidran32 Ok lets change it, how does that change the pattern in my answer? . On firefox version 28 they re-name it SnowFox , 2 days later Tags [snowfox] , [snowfox-beta] , [snowfox-prev] , [snowfox-.09] , [snowfox-081] tags made [firefox-27]exists . . years later firefox is no longer an item, and all firefox versions are merged to [Firefox]. [Snowfox] has an arbitrary , and at its second year, the layers of mess made when it came out are merged, [Snowfox-V9] is a popular used tag and somebody keeps recreating it :-) so it is there. [Firefox] hangs out as it would anyway till it is dead. | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 21:07 | comment | added | Ben Richards | @Psycogeek It may seem that way, but it still can change. Making assumptions now that are hard to backtrack later would be a bad idea. | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 20:35 | comment | added | Psycogeek | @sidran32 More of the programs seem to be leaning towards using a version number now, as opposed to some new trick name. what once was Sparrow , Hawk , and Eagle :-) versions often has a number as we all become binary units of the system. But the same pattern can still apply. when WINwhatever is no longer useful, it gets dumped under arbitrary windows. | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 20:20 | comment | added | Ben Richards | Tags for Firefox should correspond to the naming scheme of that particular version of Firefox. We cannot assume that they'll continue with the numbering scheme ad infinitum. Just like Windows went from Windows 3 to Windows 95 and then Windows 98 to ME to XP to Vista and back to 7 and then 8, Mozilla may choose a different naming scheme sometime in the future. It's best to just follow that. | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 20:15 | comment | added | Psycogeek | When it comes to Maintain, ANY use of the version, creates a maintainance. (see office). No use of the version, the tag is then created, and how is maintance different? if tags cannot be locked , then there is a larger maintance problem with merging than with leaving an active version alone ? (I assume from what i have seen) Persistant re-creation of the tag, indicates that somebody think they need it, and it is a bigger problem of maintance? plus the lack of the specific tag. | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 19:54 | comment | added | Psycogeek | And I am still using Office '97 :-) but in that use I would not make a new Tag for it. Again, the same above pattern could apply. My version of it is not interesting or active, therfore I can use [Word] or [office] | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 19:51 | comment | added | slhck | There's a difference between Firefox and Chrome pushing new versions silently every few weeks and Microsoft releasing major Office versions every few years. In fact, we only use versions for really large update intervals (such as OSes, Office, etc.) | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 19:50 | comment | added | Psycogeek | Then form a Pattern, a fact. "All program tags on SU will hereby and forever be referred to as their common program name only, without any version" Otherwise I am going vote to close all program versions discussions as Dupes :-) | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 19:43 | comment | added | slhck | Yeah, but that'd mean an immense overhead in maintaining the tags, basically we have to do something every time a version comes out. | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 19:35 | comment | added | Psycogeek | In the above pattern, which could apply hundreds of times over, with the above question, I would think about retaining the Firefox10 , as they are current, so it was currentaly used. All i am trying to point out is, it is the smallest bucket, but does not define it as least nessisary. | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 19:31 | comment | added | slhck | Somebody created them. Note that Firefox used to show these version numbers, but AFAIK doesn't do that anymore. | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 19:30 | comment | added | Psycogeek | Then how did the tags come about? | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 19:28 | history | edited | Psycogeek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 8, 2012 at 19:28 | comment | added | slhck | I'm having trouble following you. Can you please be more concise and give an example? The huge problem is—if I understand you correctly—that most users don't care about the version they use. Firefox will not display the version number anymore, just like Chrome. They aren't going to use the tags we create for them | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 19:18 | history | edited | Psycogeek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 8, 2012 at 19:09 | history | answered | Psycogeek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |