A somewhat common practice is to publish beta or release candidate builds before a new major version of a library, to gather user feedback on a non-changing version. A way to ignore these versions as is done for snapshots would be useful to avoid needing hundreds of lines in the yaml config when we make breaking changes in a beta cycle (admittedly, it's not a huge deal as it's auto-generated). The maven plugin resolved a similar issue with a versionFormat option.
A somewhat common practice is to publish beta or release candidate builds before a new major version of a library, to gather user feedback on a non-changing version. A way to ignore these versions as is done for snapshots would be useful to avoid needing hundreds of lines in the yaml config when we make breaking changes in a beta cycle (admittedly, it's not a huge deal as it's auto-generated). The maven plugin resolved a similar issue with a
versionFormatoption.