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Re:Why we’re switching to calendar versioning by paulddraper on Sunday April 14, 2019 @02:02PM (#19660742)
But the journey from A to B to C to D is longer than A to D.

You can get whiplash from conforming to every change in the winds.

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Re:Why we’re switching to calendar versioning by erik_seaberg on Sunday April 14, 2019 @02:18PM (#19660824)
This. Skipping B and C needs to be managed like any other technical debt, but it can pay off. It's not your job to regression test every intermediate version of everyone's libraries.
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