which has a very succinct explanation of forwards and backwards compatibility as it relates to producers and consumers.
It's high time we did a second draft of SchemaVer which explains it in terms of forwards/backwards compatibility; the actual behavior of it (when to bump etc) would barely change.
https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/versioning#iddiv371153984
which has a very succinct explanation of forwards and backwards compatibility as it relates to producers and consumers.
It's high time we did a second draft of SchemaVer which explains it in terms of forwards/backwards compatibility; the actual behavior of it (when to bump etc) would barely change.