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Clarify policy on breaking changes

Open chaosagent opened this issue 9 years ago • 3 comments
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Theres no general policy on breaking changes in CONTRIBUTING.md; I think it'd be useful to have one.

chaosagent avatar Nov 06 '16 19:11 chaosagent

I think the current consensus is, that breaking things in order to make the code follow CONVENTIONS.md or to fix some problem (not necessarily a bug, see #445 for example) is fine. When we start to think about a 1.0 version, that will change. Feel free to write a paragraph stating that as a PR, that we can then further discus. If you don't, I might get around to it next week.

fiveop avatar Nov 07 '16 18:11 fiveop

Yep, at this point we don't want to break APIs unless there is a good reason. But if there is a good reason, then I think it still makes sense to do so (and semver will change accordingly).

posborne avatar Nov 07 '16 18:11 posborne

Thanks for asking about this. We should definitely figure this out.

kamalmarhubi avatar Nov 09 '16 01:11 kamalmarhubi