I can tell that DataValuesJavascript and ValueView are not yet ready for a
1.0. Otherwise that would have happened.
I don't know about the other components.

Cheers, tobi
 On Feb 24, 2014 8:42 PM, "Jeroen De Dauw" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> We've been mostly following http://semver.org/ for our new components,
> which is great. One thing we have however not been doing well is bumping to
> 1.0 at the appropriate time.
>
> Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything may change
>> at any time. The public API should not be considered stable.
>>
>
> In other words, y denotes a breaking change, and z does not. This is
> shifted from the "normal" x.y.z, where x>0, in which case all breaking
> changes result in increment of x, feature additions result in increment of
> y and fixes of z. Hence if we wrongly stick around at 0.y.z, than we are
> also wrongly using the rest of the numbering at that point.
>
> So when should the bump to 1.0 happen?
>
> Version 1.0.0 defines the public API. The way in which the version number
>> is incremented after this release is dependent on this public API and how
>> it changes.
>>
> How should I deal with revisions in the 0.y.z initial development phase?
>>
>> The simplest thing to do is start your initial development release at
>> 0.1.0 and then increment the minor version for each subsequent release.
>> How do I know when to release 1.0.0?
>>
>> If your software is being used in production, it should probably already
>> be 1.0.0. If you have a stable API on which users have come to depend, you
>> should be 1.0.0. If you're worrying a lot about backwards compatibility,
>> you should probably already be 1.0.0.
>> Doesn't this discourage rapid development and fast iteration?
>>
>> Major version zero is all about rapid development. If you're changing the
>> API every day you should either still be in version 0.y.z or on a separate
>> development branch working on the next major version.
>>
> Most of our components are used in production and have a relatively stable
> API, yet they still have a version in the 0.y.z format. Let's pay more
> attention to this for our new components, so they don't end up in the same
> situation. For the existing ones we can increment the first number rather
> than the second one the next instance where we would otherwise increment
> the second one.
>
> Cheers
>
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