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Don't overestimate the power of versions

loudthinking.com » 2008 » May » 1st » Don't overestimate the power of versions

I've long been impressed and puzzled by the power of big version numbers. To open source projects like Ruby on Rails, it's such a divorced measure of quality or features that I feel we need to take it's importance down a few notches. First of all, nothing magical happens when a certain revision of the code base is blessed with a release. It's simply the decision that what we have now should have … Continue Reading »

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