Some other minor improvements and a bug fix in the boilerplate
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Versioning
Release cycle
We follow Semantic Versioning as defined on https://semver.org/.
The GNU social platform has a monthly release cycle. That is, we only increment the version number on day 1 of each month.
For GNU social plugins, we increment version number by commit. Plugins update have a propagation of the same type in the GNU social's monthly version bump.
If we have various patch type updates in a month, we only bump it by one in the end of the month. If in the same month we have a minor too, we will only bump the minor value.
Lifecycle
GNU social has 'dev', 'alpha', 'beta', 'rc' and 'release' cycles. We usually are in dev
during summer. When we finish a dev
cycle we release an alpha
(dev
s aren't tagged as releases). From alpha
to release
it depends on how perfect GNU social is after the end of the dev
cycle. But we use the number after alpha
instead of patch
number for small bug fixes when in this cycle. When we finally go from a r
elease c
andidate to a release
, we party... and we use semver for all the small changes until we start working in another dev
cycle (usually on another summer).