On 01/25/2015 06:04 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 01/15/2015 08:26 PM, Chad wrote: >>> I've been saying for over a year now we should just drop the 1. from >>> the 1.x.y release versions. So the next release would be 25.0, 26.0, >>> etc etc. > > -1 from me, for what little that's worth... > >> It would allow us to follow semver and still retain >> our current version number history instead of waiting for a magical 2.0. > > This logic is the opposite of semver. Semver says you only bump the > major version number when you make a breaking change. Since breaking > changes are Bad Things, therefore bumping the major version number is > also a Bad Thing. It is something that you should strive to *avoid* > having to do.
Except that every 1.x release *does* contain breaking changes. If we followed semver we would be bumping the major version, but we don't. -- Legoktm _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
