release-please VS semver

Conventional Commits

We've covered everything about writing well-formatted and structured code without worrying too much about it anymore. The only part we haven't explored yet is linting commit messages. Commitlint will help us here. It allows you to configure any rules you want for the commit message, but we're going to use the Conventional Commits specification, one of the most popular conventions you'll find.

Commit Management with Conventional Commits: The Conventional Commits methodology is adopted to maintain a clear and structured record of changes with the help of commitlint.

Validate if the commit titles adhere to the Conventional Commits Specification in Merge requests.

Check out https://www.conventionalcommits.org

FYI there is already a popular tool that does just this with a very similar name: https://github.com/googleapis/release-please

The feature commit should have a clear defined message - Don't re-invent here - There exists a fairly used and accepted convention called Conventional Commits, so we are going to use that.

Check out https://github.com/googleapis/release-please

Following the Semantic Versioning rules, you should raise the version number every time you need to publish your library. In your "package.json" file, you need to change the version number to reflect whether the changes are major, minor, or patch updates.

Semantic Versioning: An established convention for version numbers following the pattern MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH

Increases the major of the latest tag and prints it As per the Semver spec, it'll also clear the pre-release…

The reason for this is that software libraries and package managers, in general, but specifically here, rely on semantic versioning. Semantic versioning is really useful for distributing packages in a predictable way. What does this look like for our project?

For a more detailed and comprehensive guide on semantic versioning, visit https://semver.org

I believe neovim follows semantic versioning. https://semver.org/

Semver has been 2.0.0 for 10 years, look at the date of the assets. Multiple releases created today where none existed before. Not sure why someone is creating releases now, perhaps just some housekeeping/cleanup.

https://github.com/semver/semver/releases

All ELRS hardware will talk to all other ELRS hardware, including Radiomaster's ELRS transmitters and receivers. There are one or two exceptions from scummy companies that have been pilloried by the community, and you probably won't find them anymore. So long as the ELRS firmware running on both devices has the same major version number, you're good to go. ie. 3.3.1 will still talk to 3.0.1, but won't talk to 2.0.0. (The "major version" is the 1st number, the "minor version" is the 2nd number, and the "patch version" is the 3rd number. See Semantic Versioning for more info.)

If you're using semver, read the spec it's not overly long or hard to understand.

Semantic versioning actually has a clear rule about this: