On 01/18/2016 01:43 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
>>>>>> Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
> 
>> I'd be happy with switching to a less-like release scheme and
>> incrementing a single number. Do minor releases even make sense anymore?
> 
> I think so. If we only increment major numbers, there is no sense of when big
> things happen, and or how much one should expect APIs to change between
> releases.

We try to keep APIs backward-compatible anyway though. In a
single-number, time-based release system, we'd just announce that we're
deprecating some API, and some time later, actually do it.