Using the date as a version number for an application that gets frequent updates is very standard. Most users will be expected to be on the latest version always.
Generally speaking, I find it easier and more intuitive to use. We use calver at work bc it seems pointless to identify if every week’s release is major / minor / patch etc. My thought is the latest is the greatest - if something goes wrong, it’ll be fixed in a later version ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s great to get a quick context of the size of the change expected. That does require the developer numbering the release to appropriately version it though.
In all seriousness, is the Dev using the build date as the version number…? July 8th, 2023 at 12:34am - vYY.MM.DD-HH.mm
Unusual approach for sure as you have no clue if it is a major version change or minor bug fixes.
Using the date as a version number for an application that gets frequent updates is very standard. Most users will be expected to be on the latest version always.
There’s even a website for it https://calver.org
Thank you for the web link, TIL it is much more common than I was aware!
Generally speaking, I find it easier and more intuitive to use. We use calver at work bc it seems pointless to identify if every week’s release is major / minor / patch etc. My thought is the latest is the greatest - if something goes wrong, it’ll be fixed in a later version ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Interesting, I always found semantic versioning pretty useless, except for knowing that a new major release breaks existing APIs
It’s great to get a quick context of the size of the change expected. That does require the developer numbering the release to appropriately version it though.
calendar versioning (calver) is not that uncommon actually.