GNOME's new versioning scheme

Firefox switched to rapid release schedule in 2011. It was long time ago when the web and Mozilla was very different. And it was clear at that time that the older release schedule does not work. A browser became a set of complex technologies for very different domains and it was not possible to develop them in sync making the major.minor distinguish meaningless.

As a mozillian at that time I only wished that Mozilla has not blindly copied exact setup from Google. 6-week cycle and the exact arrangement of channels were nothing magic and reflected internal Google processes.