tiny/minor version compatibility pledge

[pravi]

Currently debian has faraday 0.9.0 but diaspora insist it needs 0.9.1 because they won't support any version change, even bug fixes because it can break things.

Can you pledge to keep compatibility for minor versions? See https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/UpstreamPledge

This will guarantee 0.9.x will not break ~> 0.9.0 lock. It would be even better if it was 0.10 won't break ~> 0.9 but that can be considered later, may be after 1.0

[mislav]

I already try not to have feature changes between patch releases, only bugfixes. That was the philosophy between all past 0.8.x releases.

So who do I need to pledge to and in what form? Can I just keep maintaining Faraday like I did, witch patch releases only containing fixes? Because it doesn't sound like I need to change anything.

[pravi]

Can you add this information in README? like steveklabnik/request_store#43 But you'll need to release a 1.0 release for stable semver compliance.

[mislav]

It will be a while until 1.0 because we're still not sure what will go in 1.0. Until then, I'm going to close this because this issue basically asks "can you release 1.0 so we know this is stable". When we're ready to release 1.0, then we'll know it is stable. Until then, the patch releases will signify bug fixes and minor releases will signify API upgrades, just like semver.