Every developer or dev team can relate -

[skye@void.rehab]

@Natasha_Jay i almost thought this was euler's number for a second

[skye@void.rehab]

@Natasha_Jay not to be confused with euler's constant

[walkermatt@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay I always describe that approach as "marketing versioning" 🙃

[civfanatics@mstdn.games]

@Natasha_Jay it gets even worse: https://civfanatics.com/2025/11/12/civilization-vii-update-1-3-0-patch-1/ . For #Civ7 we get a "patch 1" of the minor version....

[flixxie@troet.cafe]

@simondassow @Natasha_Jay they used to do the same. I feel like I used firefox 3.6.x for ages until they decided they needed major version bumps all the time

[fiee@literatur.social]

@Caerfinon @Natasha_Jay

Where’s the imaginary part of the version number? 🤔

[druskus@chaos.social]

@Natasha_Jay the rust ecosystem should have a bit more pride imho

[prefec2@norden.social]

@Natasha_Jay don't tell everybody. We labeled that semantic versioning. We all agreed on that. It's like TDD which should have been named. We really need to talk to people and get the sales person out of the way.

[pupo@chaos.social]

@Natasha_Jay Tbh, I love software with higher numbers for the third section. I think of it as „maintenance“ not as „fix“ and at least for me its an indicator that devs care about stability and maturity of software.

[benpate@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay

I think I just pushed version 0.12.9998

[jwd630@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay #hugo 364 releases since 2013 and still hasn’t gotten to 1.0 😂🤣 Little did users know that fast referred to the release and deprecation support cycle

[moritzdietz@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay https://pridever.org

[h0ru2@cyberplace.social]

@Natasha_Jay "Default version: Shouldn't contain breaking changes by definition, but every once in a while definitely will."

[hashbangperl@hachyderm.io]

@Natasha_Jay the real semantic versioning

[hashbangperl@hachyderm.io]

@mrrmot @disorderlyf @Natasha_Jay I've used a package at version 0.02 in production, it did the job well with no issues, it genuinely should have been 1.0

[hashbangperl@hachyderm.io]

@wollman @Natasha_Jay the unixen all did this for a while, iirc

[skitt@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay This suggests a LinkedIn versioning scheme, with a single number, incremented on every release with a note saying “I’m proud to announce”

[freeplay@wetdry.world]

@Natasha_Jay looks at one using CalVer woaw they're so proud of their proejct

[gwenthefops@transfem.social]

@freeplay@wetdry.world @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt also explains why so many projects are 0.XX.XXX nowadays

[offline_and_free@todon.nl]

@Natasha_Jay :

Major version should be the shame release because you couldn't think of any solution that didn't break back compatibility so you forced a migration on all of your users.

However, this is probably the "current state" slide and semver is the "ideal state" slide.