Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Chris,

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:

> At the moment, I only have this to add: It would be nice if we could
> decide on how we will use version numbers going forward and publish a
> description of that in the manual or on the website.
>
> I think the important thing is that we publish a description.  The
> details of it are less important.  We can use Semantic Versioning [1],
> Sentimental Versioning [2], or something totally different.  As long as
> we publish our decision and stick to it, everyone will know what to
> expect.

Good point!  The difficulty here is that Guix is effectively a large
collection of libraries, which makes it hard to map it to the semver
story, I think.  Or to put it differently, we should map to semver in an
“abstract way”: what semver refers to as “API changes” would rather be
important CLI/API changes.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.