On 12 Oct 2013, at 13:29, Tomaz Muraus <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it's about time for us to switch to semantic versioning ( > http://semver.org/). > > Most of the users these days are already familiar with (and expect) the > semantic versioning scheme. This change will make it easier for them to > know what to expect and when to upgrade. > > Currently we follow "0." versioning scheme and the version numbers follow > this format: 0.<major>.<minor>. > > This format is not ideal, because: > > 1. It's an outlier and more people are familiar with semantic versioning > 2. We bump <minor> component for both, bug fix releases and releases with > new backward-compatible features > 3. People associate "1.0.0" with stability and I would argue that Libcloud > has been successfully used in production for long enough to warrant 1.0.0 > release > > As noted above, Libcloud has already been used in production for a long > time and the base API has been relatively stable, so I propose we switch to > 1.0.0 after the next release (0.14.0). >
+1 as you say people associate 0.x.y with unstable. Moving to 1.0.0 will change that > Some of you might say that it's confusing to switch directly from 0.14.0 to > 1.0.0 because 1.0.0 mostly likely won't contain any major changes. > > I don't think it's a big deal and the Linux kernel did a similar thing with > 2.6 to 3.0 transition[1]. > > Feedback, comments? Let's do it > > [1]: > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/07/linux-kernel-version-bumped-up-to-30-as-20th-birthday-approaches/
