it is now safe to declare $VERSION using our; automate the incrementi…

…ng after release

dist.ini

@@ -14,6 +14,18 @@ PkgVersion.die_on_existing_version = 0
 AutoPrereqs.skip = ^Foo$
 -remove = PodWeaver
 -remove = Test::PodSpelling
+-remove = PkgVersion
+-remove = Git::NextVersion
+
+; WARNING: this config will require updates when my author bundle
+; switches to using [RewriteVersion::Transitional] and
+; [BumpVersionAfterRelease::Transitional] with an extra [Git::Commit].
+[RewriteVersion]
+[BumpVersionAfterRelease]
+[Git::Commit / bumped $VERSION after release]
+allow_dirty_match = ^lib
+commit_msg = After release: bump $VERSION
+[Git::Push / push $VERSION bump]
 
 [Encoding]
 match = ^corpus

lib/Module/Metadata.pm

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ sub __clean_eval { eval $_[0] }
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
+our $VERSION = '1.000025';
+
 use Carp qw/croak/;
 use File::Spec;
 BEGIN {