Sign up for a GitHub account Sign in All Gists jashkenas / semantic-pedantic.md Last active February 20, 2015 Code Revisions 9 Stars 87 Forks 4 /.sunken-menu-group /.sunken-menu-contents Embed HTTPS SSH You can clone with HTTPS or SSH . Download Gist /.only-with-full-nav Why Semantic Versioning Isn't View semantic-pedantic.md semantic-pedantic.md Raw File suppressed. Click to show. Spurred by recent events ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700 ), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it. For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release...