Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "It's time to fix semantic versioning" video.

Theo, the method that people should use should be dependent on how fast the codebase changes. Generally, 0.x.x is meant to be used until you reach a stable release, but I don't see that as being any more valid than reaching 10's of thousands of patches. The method I like is to use the date as the patch number, specifically with the international format. If you know the strftime() format specifiers then %F. If you need more than once per day releases, then I'd add _%T on to that. Once enough changes have accumulated, then bump minor. Once a breaking change occurs, bump major. Simple as that. Then the patch numbers are super easy to track, because it's literally the date of that patch, and major and minor pertain to public releases and API and feature changes.
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