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Pointing out the obviousPointing out the obviousPosted Feb 13, 2013 9:11 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Wrong Question by ncm Parent article: LibreOffice 4.0: First Take (ZDNet) You will agree that not busting anything without new features has no value. Otherwise people would just bump version numbers with the exact same code base (or even with small incremental improvements) and everyone would be happy. You might say that the Linux kernel did that strategy, but... in fact that particular project is adding features all the time. I don't remember other projects that did this strategy; perhaps that in itself is a sign since they are so unremarkable. I am sure some of you may help me here.
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Pointing out the obvious Posted Feb 13, 2013 9:27 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] I don't remember other projects that did this strategy; perhaps that in itself is a sign since they are so unremarkable. I am sure some of you may help me here. One the best examples of what constitutes major release for Joe Average is Turbo Pascal. It was a time when OOP was all the rage and C++ was hot. Turbo Pascal introduced objects, inheritance and other such stuff, too. Between version 5 and 6. Note: I said between. Version 6 was a major release - with blue background, movable windows and so on. You know: major. While version 5.5 only introduced "insignificant" changes: the whole OOP paradigm in a compiler itself. Note that is compiler so of course it's users are more computer-savvy than LibreOffice users.
Pointing out the obvious Posted Feb 13, 2013 14:42 UTC (Wed) by wpost (guest, #89324) [Link]
Mozilla certainly comes to mind.
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