From 1c79aa7fdbca5c0e6bd1b0c97fffbc523df015ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Maxime=20=E2=80=9Cpep=E2=80=9D=20Buquet?= Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:23:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] versioning: update wording on release definition MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Maxime “pep” Buquet --- content/posts/versioning.md | 23 ++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/posts/versioning.md b/content/posts/versioning.md index 29e1a19..ba021c2 100644 --- a/content/posts/versioning.md +++ b/content/posts/versioning.md @@ -37,20 +37,21 @@ critical bug fixes (crashes and the like). For others, releases are only checkpoints. A way of saying that features are being added, bugs are being fixed, and have people talk about it. -What appears in these releases is actually defined nowhere. It is up to -project maintainers to decide what they want to see in. They could very well -make a release every other commit and be happy with it if they wanted to be -silly. They would still be [semver](https://semver.org) compliant -- one of the -various versioning scheme defined out there. +There is no global definition of what a release is supposed to be. It is up to +project maintainers to decide what they want to see in it. They could very +well make a release every other commit and be happy with it if they wanted to +be silly. They would still be [semver](https://semver.org) compliant -- one of +the various versioning scheme defined out there. Nothing also mandates they have to backport bug fixes to the current or previous releases, and some projects actually cannot afford such a luxury. All of this takes time and that is a really expensive resource in a project. -_Update from the present: Even if I had time I don't think I would do it. -I think the issue I tried to convey in this article isn't that we don't have -time, it's that I'm tired of being imposed a vision of the world I don't agree -with. What's more, people having these expectations often don't even take part -in the process of making the project or the in community around it, at any -level._ +_Update from the present:_ + +_I think the issue I tried to convey in this article isn't that we don't have +time, or that there's no definition of a release, it's that I'm tired of being +imposed a vision of the world I don't agree with. What's more, people having +these expectations often don't even take part in the process of making the +project or the in community around it, at any level._