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missionsix on June 10, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Calendar Versioning

Has anyone successfully transitioned from SemVer to CalVer? Especially with a large customer base who is familiar with the the major product versions but gets confused with the minor/patch variants and what’s included ?

I’m interested in your war stories, pm me.

mhashemi on June 10, 2018 [–]

Here was a recent high-profile but somewhat contentious transition: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/2191

The key here was that the rapid pace of the project kept breaking various user segments' expectations about semantic versioning.

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