ruby / ruby/net-imap

versioning and incompatibilities

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Description

There are over 6700 lines of diff between 0.3 and 0.4 and it is not backwards compatible to 0.3 functionality. Please consider:

  • Using a changelog to document important changes
  • Using semantic versioning to highlight when incompatible changes can be expected. OR declaring that versioning strategy you're using so we don't have to guess if an upgrade is safe or not.
  • Maintaining backwards compatibility across tiny bumps of ruby (eg best I can tell, upgrading to ruby 3.3.1 broke one of my gems because of net-imap changes).

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The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the project's current release, versioning, and compatibility documentation; done means a documented changelog and explicit versioning and backwards-compatibility policy that makes upgrade impact clear.

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Assessment

Tech stack
ruby
Domain
documentation, release
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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