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EffVer: Version your code by the effort required to upgrade

jacobtomlinson.dev · published 15 January 2024

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mihai.page

Version numbers Read at the source ↗

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Stefanie Molin

SciPy 2025 🇺🇸 Read at the source ↗

15 Jul 2025

Terence Eden’s Blog

Some esoteric versioning schemes (monotonic moronity) Read at the source ↗

12 Feb 2025

zarr.dev

Versioning Zarr with EffVer Read at the source ↗

9 Jan 2025

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napari Read at the source ↗

29 Jun 2024

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SoloVer 2 Read at the source ↗

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https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/version-specifiers/

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https://github.com/data-apis/array-api-extra

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https://github.com/hikari-py/hikari/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

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https://github.com/holoviz/holoviz/blob/main/hep/hep2.md

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https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jep/25516-effver.html

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https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/changelog.html

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https://github.com/kr8s-org/kr8s

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https://lightgbm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation-Guide.html

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https://github.com/OceanParcels/Parcels

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https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developers/contributing.html

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EffVer: Version your code by the effort required to upgrade Read at the source ↗

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https://hynek.me/about/

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https://xkcd.com/1172

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