Semantic Versioning

1 · Seth Vargo · Dec. 21, 2011, midnight
I'm honestly sick of the discrepancies that exist between versioning. As such, I'm proposing a universal versioning scheme with actual definitions that are easy to understand and follow. One of the biggest complaints from non-technical users of alpha/beta/release candidate software is "it doesn't work." Well duh! The problem is that most users have absolutely no idea what beta even means; and this isn't their fault, its ours. I remember when I was younger, Hotmail was cool. Anyone who had an ...