BAP versioning number inconsistency about bap HOT 4 CLOSED

According to sematic versioning specification any release, that starts from 0, i.e. 0.3.x may break backward compatibility, since there is now particular API yet. So it is ok, to use version 0.9. Something like 0.9.3 as a current version, would be fine.

Other way is to use pre-release suffixes, to explicitly specify, that we're actually quite different the 0.x BAP. In that case versions would look like 1.0.0-alpha-1, 1.0.0-alpha-2, etc..

Anyway, current versioning is the most confusing, so it should be changed ASAP.

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FWIW I second the proposal to use semantic versioning. 1.0.0-alpha-X is an accurate description of where we are right now.

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Lets go with 0.9 for now. 1.0.0-alpha-x suggests to me we are working on bug fixes, when in fact we are working on adding major functionality.

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To follow up with why not 1.0.0-alpha-x, we can use that name when we stop adding major code and are working to remove bugs in a feature-complete release. So 0.9.

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