But… the 3.6 -> 4.0 release was just such a pain. We spent more than a year trying to cram too many features in v4.
Clearly feature-based releases were just not cutting it, especially as Chrome was shipping new versions fast.
For the longest time people were saying it was the wrong move, but really - that was absolutely necessary, and proved out to be the right thing to do. The Stable / Beta / Alpha ("aurora", was that the name?) channels massively improved our yield :)
But… the 3.6 -> 4.0 release was just such a pain. We spent more than a year trying to cram too many features in v4.
Clearly feature-based releases were just not cutting it, especially as Chrome was shipping new versions fast.
For the longest time people were saying it was the wrong move, but really - that was absolutely necessary, and proved out to be the right thing to do. The Stable / Beta / Alpha ("aurora", was that the name?) channels massively improved our yield :)