0.x Major Releases
Josua Schmid
Posted on October 30, 2023
Dear Ruby gem maintainers
Are you aware that 0.x
releases of your libraries have to be treated as major releases by me? – Even and especially if you're following semantic versioning (see https://semver.org/#spec-item-4).
In the list of my Depfu updates I more and more often receive lists like this.
I feel that you're bailing out of your responsibility for compatibility that we all owe to Matz. You should have every right to change everything you want in your code, but why not simply bump the correct version number part when you do that? Are you afraid of real first digit major versions?
💖 💪 🙅 🚩
Josua Schmid
Posted on October 30, 2023
Join Our Newsletter. No Spam, Only the good stuff.
Sign up to receive the latest update from our blog.