682440 - Descriptive version numbers for betas

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 675192

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Christiaan Hofman]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:7.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0
Build ID: 20110824172139

Steps to reproduce:

Update FireFox


Actual results:

Get version 7.0


Expected results:

Get version 7.0b3 or something like that.

Really, version numbers should say something about the version I am getting. So release versions should have proper release version numbers, bug fix versions should have increases in the bug fix version numbers, and betas should have a version number that somehow indicates that it's a beta and not a bug fox or release version. A version number like "7.0" is most definitely the version number for a release version and nothing else. So it should never be used for a beta. Really, there are general ruled about version numbering, please look them up, because you clearly have no idea how it works.

Generally, your version numbers, especially lately with the ever increasing major version numbers without having major changes and in short times, make no sense. You really have to learn how to use version numbers. Otherwise you're just **** off users. You should be informative, there is no reason to be stupid, so why are you?