On: What's next for SemVer

[acranox]

> Let's allow the first number to advance at whatever rate you like

This is what I feel like Pip did. https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/

it went from 1.5.6 to 6.0, and later from 10.0.1 to 18.0.

Ok.

[jacinda → acranox]

I don't know anything about the 1 -> 6 jump, but the jump to 18 was because they switched to time-based versioning last year (2018). First release of 2019 was 19.0.

[acranox → jacinda]

the 1 -> 6 jump was because they decided to drop the first number. Yes, they had reasons, but changing version schemas twice in a couple years is a great way to confuse people in the interest of just doing whatever the author likes.