Justin Searls on Nostr: The reason maintainers bump the major version of a package is usually 30% excitement ...
The reason maintainers bump the major version of a package is usually 30% excitement about new stuff and 70% terror over what might go wrong.
In practice, most breaking changes are discovered after release.
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2023-08-23 22:49:39Event JSON
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