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My biggest pet peeve at the moment is people without any development experience using version numbers.

Me: "Communicating a release date for the feature towards clients is dangerous, we have a developer shortage, and currently don't really have enough capacity to..."

Manager: "What we release next month doesn't have to be perfect, it is just a v1"

Me: "You mean it's a beta? If that's the case, could you maybe differentiate the requirements of the beta, let's call it a 0.1.0, versus the 1.0.0-rc, the release candidate?"

*Feature is eventually merged into production, barely in a beta state*

Manager: "So I have some ideas for the v2"

Me: "You mean 1.0.0"

Manager: "Let's compromise and call it v1.5"

Me: "Let's compromise, you stop communicating release dates, AND you stop using version numbers..."

Manager: "That's not a compromise..."

Me: "...I wasn't finished... And I won't respond to the recruiter who just offered me a better paying job"

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  • 19
    Please send him a link to semver and ask him to memorize it if she/he ever wants to be taken seriousely

    https://semver.org/

    Otherwise change version to be "1-800-alpaka-boss/5.5"
  • 41
    @bioDan I'm thinking about some kind of Ubuntu Release model.

    21.10 Moronic Manager

    22.04 Embarrassing Executive

    22.10 Cunty Coworker

    23.04 Jerky Junior

    23.10 Stubborn Stakeholder

    🤷‍♀️
  • 5
    I just love good old rants that end in "... and maybe i won't go to a better paying job" cuz it reminds us that we, as trained workers, still have some form of bargaining power #nocommie
  • 1
    Meh. And it's so simple.
    First digit its the version number, only changes if the program changes completely (or you make a new version from scratch)
    Second number only changes when features are added / removed
    Third number is for bug fixes.
    Alfas, betas and anything starting with 0 are prototypes (the client won't see any until the first number is a 1)
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    @GyroGearloose tell that to my side project version 0.9.64567434753
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