Proposal: Switch to semantic release versions

[Flet]

I'd like to propose switching to using a semantic versioning style for release numbers.

Reasons:

• Well-known standard that is employed by many projects.
• able to convey the impact of updates at a high level (major.minor.patch)
• Current versioning relies on alphabetic sort order and can lead to confusion and collisions (is v2.13 older or newer than v2.2? what about v2.192`?)

I think we can just start with a v3.0.0 release to avoid overlap with the previous version numbers.

Any thoughts?

[skalupa]

I think this would make a lot of sense! Would the releases after that be of the major:minor:hotfix format then? Such that the next release would be 3.1.0 if there are multiple PRs included?

[Flet]

Closed via latest release!