we tried semantic versioning for some time, but gave up. It is still people writing the code - and people do mistakes. So even when something is released as a patch how do we know that it was a mistake and it should have been a minor or a major version. Or they introduced a bug that would break our system?
So in the end we would still end up not trusting it and rely on testing (hopefully as automatic as possible) before we could merge the upgrade.
In the end we just switched to using timestamp-based version numbers and just try to upgrade often enough so each incremental change is small. And try to have good automatic tests that can do most of the regression testing for us.
So in the end we would still end up not trusting it and rely on testing (hopefully as automatic as possible) before we could merge the upgrade.
In the end we just switched to using timestamp-based version numbers and just try to upgrade often enough so each incremental change is small. And try to have good automatic tests that can do most of the regression testing for us.