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We fail to follow SemVer – and why it needn’t matter

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Transcript

  1. ☺ Hi, I’m Stephan @boennemann @boennemann

  2. None

  3. 170,000 @boennemann packages on npm

  4. A package is a solved problem @boennemann

  5. 1. npmsearch.com 2. npm install <package> 3. ? 4. profit

    @boennemann

  6. X.Y.Z @boennemann Major Minor Patch http://semver.org

  7. @boennemann Major Minor Patch http://semver.org 1.0.0

  8. @boennemann Major Minor Patch http://semver.org 1.0.1

  9. @boennemann Major Minor Patch http://semver.org 1.1.0

  10. @boennemann Major Minor Patch http://semver.org 2.0.0

  11. 2.0.0 @boennemann Major Minor Patch Breaking Feature

  12. 2.0.0 @boennemann Breaking Feature Patch http://semver.npmjs.com/ ~ ^

  13. Nein @boennemann

  14. We fail to follow SemVer @boennemann

  15. @boennemann http://npmbynumbers.bocoup.com/ 0.y.z >0.y.z

  16. Anything may change at any time @boennemann

  17. @boennemann

  18. No changelogs @boennemann

  19. @boennemann

  20. Hauptversionsnummern- erhöhungsangst¹ @boennemann ¹ Fear of increasing the major version

  21. If we strictly followed “semantic” versioning, it would probably be

    Backbone.js 43.0.0 by now — which doesn't help anyone evaluate the actual progress of the project. – Jeremy Ashkenas, http://backbonejs.org/ @boennemann

  22. evaluate the actual progress of the project @boennemann

  23. Versions are not for humans @boennemann

  24. @boennemann

  25. @boennemann 1.x 2.x

  26. @boennemann 1.x 1.x

  27. Versions are not for humans – names are @boennemann

  28. Our tools are so bad, we value human readability in

    computer protocols when it really doesn’t. fucking. matter. @boennemann – Stephan Seidt, http://fucking.engineering/

  29. We fail to follow SemVer and why it needn’t matter

    @boennemann

  30. live-coding @boennemann

  31. ⭐⭐⭐ git.io/semantic-release npm.im/semantic-release @boennemann

  32. Thank you @boennemann