Hynek Schlawack avatar Hynek Schlawack

Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You

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https://hynek.me/articles/semver-will-not-save-you/

As a maintainer of several open source projects (both in Ruby and JavaScript), I agree with everything Hynek says about the difficulty for a maintainer to define versions and give a hint about potential compatibility issues.

even if the maintainer is pure of heart, extremely diligent, and super conservative with what constitutes a breaking change, it is impossible to predict the ways a change can affect your users.

I still find semver better than calver, both as a maintainer and a user, and as Hynek says:

If you’re a maintainer and you like SemVer as an extra service to your users: go wild! I’m not here to tell you how to spend your time. There is value to adding semantic meaning to versions.

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    Charity Majors avatar Charity Majors

    Fulfilling the promise of CI/CD

    This may surprise you, but continuous deployment is far and away the easiest way to write, ship, and run code in production. This is the counterintuitive truth about software: making lots of little changes swiftly is infinitely easier than making a few bulky changes slowly.