109656 - Impossible to see if Mac OS X browser problems have been fixed due to inconsistant version numbering

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: FTP: Staging, task)

Description

[abrody]

When I go to select Latest Nightly Build for Mac OS X version of Mozilla 
fromn your homepage, I download and install your version of Mozilla for X.  
It is still version 0.9.4!   Yet the date on the version if I just list the FTP 
directory it comes from is November 9th.   I got to your 0.9.5 download 
page http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.5/ and look for 
Mac OS X, and I get a date of October 16th!   So which is the latest 
version?

0.9.4 of November 9th?
0.9.5 of October 16th?
At least the latest nightly build of November 9th for Mac OS 8 and 9 is an 
0.9.5 version.   Which version are you working on updating, and which 
version are you leaving behind?   Please use consistant versioning, so it 
is possible to find out which issues need to be addressed prior to the 
next release.  Otherwise we'll always be reporting bugs for the version not 
current.

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

Reporter: if you want the latest trunk build, pick the on in here :
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/ contains the latest build :
trunk or branch (I see some 0.9.4 builds are still being build these days)

Comment 2

[abrody]

Well yes, there are still some 0.9.4 builds that are the most current 
available for the operating system.  It still does not answer the question of 
which is the latest.   0.9.4 for 11/9, or 0.9.5 for 10/16.   Version numbers 
should increase with date...not decrease.   Please use consistant version 
numbering.

Comment 3

[abrody]

I am trying to determine if certain bugs have been fixed.  To have a trunk 
build, a nightly build, and a build for a version number that is higher from 
an older date is extremely confusing.  Let's consolidate to two builds, the 
release build and the nightly build, the nightly being an 0.9.5 that is newer 
than the release build.   You've done it for every other operating system, 
including Mac OS 9, but not Mac OS X.   Leaving 0.9.4 on the version 
number makes me wonder if you are patching the 0.9.5 release build but 
not the 0.9.4 nightly build and not the 0.9.4 trunk build.   It is very 
misleading, and please don't resolve this issue until I can download all 
within the same version number.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

server operations

Comment 5

[Gilles Durys]

See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59483#c4

Comment 6

[Chris Dolan]

This bug seems to be gone now.  The "latest" dir for nightlies has been
reporting the correct timestamps lately.

Comment 7

[Steve Dagley]

Marking fixed:

a) Per Chris Dolan's comment the timestamps are now right
b) The only way to correlate what fixes are in what builds in case of the
milestone builds is to look at the CVS checkins and/or the comments in the bug
as to what tree they were checked into.  Assuming there's a linear correlation
between build numbers and fixes checked in will only cause headaches.