leandro-lucarella-sociomantic
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7 years ago Some chat discussion:
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luca for me alpha means there is (new) unfinished functionality
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mihails Yep, alpha only applies to unreleased majors really Very rarely - unreleased minors Definitely not patch ones alpha essentially means "not final, may have more breaking changes and stuff"
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luca like alpha means there is no way the final version will be even close to the alpha release, while for a beta there is some chance yeah, and for beta normally there shouldn't be breaking changes, but it might rarely for rcs it should be almost impossible, is like "I'm too conservative to call this final, but it should be final"
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nemanja yeah, beta then sounds good for minors look at my example I've released a minor last week and I have lost track how many bugs I have found but it was expected for bugs to be there
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luca yeah, that sounds like a beta, you can smell the bugs in the betas, but it should be just missing polishing, not half implemented stuff I would say they are sort of equivalent to major, minor and patch for an unreleased stuff
We should add more info about what "alpha", "beta" and "rc" means for pre-releases, SemVer doesn't define meaning for these, it just mention them.