Deciding on version numbers

Question

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How to do version numbers?

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Hello,

So I recently saw that Groovy was released to version 1.6

Answer 1

They're very much arbitrary. A lot of people like to have something like

[major].[minor].[release].[revision]

as their versioning scheme, but I've also been in companies that refused to release a 1.0 branded product because one of the VPs didn't want to. Marketing also can influence this.

A good question to ask for increasing the major version can be:

If this were a paid product, would customers pay to upgrade to this newer version?

If so, it might be good increase the major number.