Comment Re:Major Version == Major Changes (Score 1) 199
Lots and lots of minor fixes and changes add up to serious architectural rework. Ground-breaking new features are added when ready - one by one - every few months it seems I read about another major change to the kernel - so after a while you have several such major features added, it's unreasonable to add a major number every time.
So while I agree with your general ideas, it's certainly not that easy in the "release early, release fast" world of open source software, as with the fairly rapid addition of many bigger and smaller features to the kernel, and the fairly frequent release of new versions. Alternatively you may just have stick to major versions, like recently Firefox (currently my Firefox is at version 35) and Chrome (no idea what number they're at now) are doing, and as a result indeed the numbers are big enough that you can't really distinguish them. Which is bound to happen sooner or later to any piece of software that's under active development for a prolonged time.