[copyleft-next] Numbering of first release

Richard Fontana fontana at sharpeleven.org
Tue Dec 4 04:44:51 UTC 2012


On 11/21/2012 12:08 PM, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) wrote:
> Please do no use 0.01.
> 
> Regardless of issues such as the applicability and mapping of "stable API",
> "added feature", "bug fix" etc to a license text, I do think that
> http://semver.org/ summarizes well today's general expectations of a
> version number.
> 
> In particular, points are not decimal points, they are separators between
> non-negative integers, such that 0.10.0 > 0.2.0.
> 
> So, please do not use 0.01; 0.0.0 or 0.1.0 is better.
> 
> This is my strong opinion on the color of this particular wall of the bike
> shed.

I am inclined to follow this suggestion. I think the first numbered
release should be "0.1.0".

- RF





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