Mozilla Unveils 'Aggressive' Firefox OS Schedule: Quarterly Feature Releases 87
An anonymous reader writes "With Firefox OS version 1.0 out the door, Mozilla has decided that it's time to unveil its strategy for new versions. The company is planning to make feature releases available to partners every quarter and push out security updates for the previous two feature releases every six weeks. 'As far as I know, that's the most aggressive mobile OS release strategy out there,' Alex Keybl, Mozilla's Manager of Release Management, said in a statement. 'This sort of alignment across multiple browser products, and now an OS, is unprecedented at the pace we're moving.'"
Re:Isn't all of it ridiculously aggressive now? (Score:1, Interesting)
I thought the same thing when I first read the title, but from what I tell, there is a subtle difference. Instead of a "major" Firefox release full of nothingness basically every fucking month like it is now, they intend every third release to be less boring and actually bring new/major features. So... they're bringing back the "major versions" they threw out on their Google copying spree, only they won't be designated by major version numbers... they'll be designated by every third major version number.
If that means we no longer hear about every god damn Firefox release on Slashdot and other technology news sites, then I'll be happy. Just skipping versions 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, etc. and covering only versions 23, 26, 29, 32, etc. would be a hell of an improvement. Especially assuming these versions really *are* worth writing about (ie. more than just a bug-fix release with a major number bump).
Mozilla keeps backing up and making their release plans more like the old, while still refusing to go back to the original release style that worked. Ironically, they defended their stance like it was the end of the world for the longest time... then they, slowly, seem to be getting the point that their genius idea is not so fucking brilliant after all. This just reeks of an organization with advertising and $$$ at the top of the management all right. Ever since that fucking Mozilla Corporation was founded. Well... at least they seem to be getting the clue (slowly).