On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 10:42 AM David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote: > Semantic versioning guidelines are not something we are following, especially here.
I understand; the protocol is ours, and we'll do whatever we do in the end. I'm claiming that we can choose to provide semantics, and if we do, those semantics will help people who are not here on the list to defend their use cases.
I was mostly just responding to your surprise given that we have a track-record here. I agree that our existing effective policy isn't all that well documented, namely as to when the major component might change, and the fact that the minor component does not represent a "bug fix release".