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- As a maintainer of many popular packages such as express, I, along with the other maintainers, have come to realized that semantic versioning simply does not work in practice. It has caused a lot of bikeshedding, creating non-constructive discussions in the repository. It generally makes development actually more difficult.
Recently, some people have created some ideas about how to improve versioning. I first proposed getting rid of versions < 1 all together as 0.x.x modules are inherently unstable due to its lack of specification. Damon Oehlman proposed slimver, a stricter variant of semantic versioning.
I'm proposing ferver, which changes the semantics of semver to be more practical with breaking changes. You can read more about it on the GitHub page, but first, let's talk about the failures of semver.