Major design changes

[alizedebray]

Update the contribution guidelines with the outcome of hereunder discussion.

=> Major changes in the design should be considered as breaking changes for the design system packages.

Tasks

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1. Update contribution guidelines with this information

[gfellerph]

• New disabled styles were not technically breaking, but visually. Should this have been a breaking change?
• The information was there, but projects are not happy with the change
• Versioning rules are just about code, not about design. Create the possibility to add a major version even if the code is not breaking
• Projects are not happy with the current disabled styles (strikethrough)
• We changed disabled styles for accessibility reasons so it's not possible to revert to a non-accessible state, maybe people are also using it wrong
• Disabled elements are not accessible either way
• Disabled buttons were implemented a little wrong, so the design change broke their page. A minor change resulted in a lot of work. With a major change, expectation would have been different
• We could not predict that this would break with incorrect usage
• Depends on how often we do design breaking changes (should not be too often)
• Inform Design Team about pending major changes so design changes can be implemented as well

Actions

• Take major design changes into consideration when deciding for major release versions