[aerogear-dev] [RFC] Initial Versioning Policy

[Sebastien Blanc]

+1

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Christos Vasilakis <cvasilak at gmail.com>wrote:

> +1
>
> On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Douglas Campos <qmx at qmx.me> wrote:
>
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > -- cut here --
> > # AeroGear Versioning Policy
> >
> > For this 1.0.0 release and beyond we're planning some significant
> changes on how we do versioning for the project.
> >
> > ## TL;DR
> >
> > We're sticking to the de-facto standard of `major`.`minor`.`patchlevel`,
> mostly know as Semantic Versioning, or just [semver].
> >
> > ## A bit of history
> >
> > During the early days of the project, we started following the [JBoss
> Project Versioning] - at that time our assets were mostly Java. Then we
> found out later that we were doing it wrong, because we forgot the
> timestamp part of the milestone releases.
> >
> > ## Getting it right
> >
> > So we're going to release 1.0.0 in a few days, and we'll drop the
> suffixes and work with versions like this:
> >
> > - **bugfixes**:
> >    - increment `patch` (1.0.0 -> 1.0.1)
> >
> >    Bugfixes and minor changes: keeps API compatibility
> > - **new features and small breaking changes**:
> >    - increment `minor` (1.0.1 -> 1.1.0)
> >
> >    **Small breaking changes** means that some work **may** be needed for
> updating beetween minor versions.
> > - **major releases**:
> >    - increment `major` (1.1.0 -> 2.0.0)
> >
> >    Mostly backward incompatible changes and/or when a group of big
> features is ready.
> >
> > Any release can use the discriminators .alpha/.beta/.pre for testing,
> those are sorted right.
> >
> >
> > [semver]:http://semver.org
> > [JBoss Project Versioning]:
> https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossProjectVersioning
> >
> > -- qmx
> >
> >
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