Use a different versioning format

[Jan200101]

Northstar doesn't really make use of any real versioning format with the version just being incremented as is felt.

I am in favort of adopting some versioning schema already applied to the real work like:

• semver
• calver
• WendtVer
• GitVer
• pragmaticversioning
• even/odd versioning (SDL)
• ZeroVer

[GeckoEidechse]

I guess that would apply to all of Northstar and not just launcher, right? ^^

[Jan200101]

correct, would probably be better in the Northstar repo.
I can't transfer it myself.

[GeckoEidechse]

I think one of the suggestions made somewhere on the Northstar Discord (cannot find it rn) by @F1F7Y was to do like FEATURE.PATCH so like e.g. v82.1, essentially dropping one version number.

[Jan200101]

I think one of the suggestions [...] was to do like FEATURE.PATCH so like e.g. v82.1 ...

I am in favor of this.

[GeckoEidechse]

Maybe to give a bit of backstory of how we ended up with something like v1.24.7 is that back in the very very early days of Northstar when we released like v1.4.0 which had a decent refactor at the time, I suggested to @BobTheBob9 just call it a v2.0.0, as I was anticipating the scenario we have rn.

At the time they declined saying there's still a few bigger changes in the works that would warrant a 2.0

From there the idea was to have Frontier Defense release or something similar be the 2.0 but as you can obviously tell, that never released (it'll come soon™).

Given that I'm getting back on track, I'm kinda hoping to just get something out that warrants a 2.0 and from there we just push out MAJOR version bumps more liberally quickly going 3.0 -> 4.0 -> ... until version numbers become less relevant to the average player.

[EM4Volts]

Given that I'm getting back on track, I'm kinda hoping to just get something out that warrants a 2.0 and from there we just push out MAJOR version bumps more liberally quickly going 3.0 -> 4.0 -> ... until version numbers become less relevant to the average player.

I dont really think players will care about the version number. Sure announcing a 2.0 would be cool and people would look at it i think ultimately people wont really care.