Releases in 3 months

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Quarta, 10 de Julho de 2013 17:43:38 você escreveu:
> On Tuesday 09 July 2013 21:57:51 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Sven Brauch wrote:
> > > I think Nuno's point is very interesting and worth thinking about. To
> > > stick with the firefox example, since they started releasing every
> > > ortography fix in the settings dialog as a new major version, I think
> > > attention in the media to their releases has declined a lot -- nobody
> > > cares any more that a new version of firefox was released since it
> > > happens every three days.
> > 
> > that's my impression too.
> 
> I can't comment on promo strategies, but I can comment on news since I read
> a lot of them.
> 
> FF pointless releases get small coverage, FF releases containing interesting
> features get the same coverage as they did before. For example:
> 
> Firefox 201 has speed improvements and security fixes. This one appears
> barely.
> 
> Firefox 202 contains new interface. This one appears everywhere as old
> firefox releases did.
> 
> Actually, in the old fashion FF releases only the most important changes
> (like new interface) got press coverage anyway... so not much have changed.

And if we go by your proposal to have major releases that we chage the big 
numbe we can make that efort by then...
I repete there is nothing major about the majpr releses aprat from new 
branding artwork materials, +promo push, and maybe some features that take 
longer to develop and that its developer wants to debut in a "major" release