If you look through the 350+ JIRA’s fixed for 1.7.0 it’s not only bug fixes—there are improvements and new additions. IMO, using a Minor version designation was the correct choice and fits with semver guidelines.
Anthony > On Oct 10, 2018, at 10:31 AM, Robert Houghton <rhough...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > Alexander, how can you say never? Didn't we just go through a time like > this? > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018, 10:29 Alexander Murmann <amurm...@pivotal.io> wrote: > >> Sai, I think what you are saying is theoretically 100% correct. As Anthony >> points out in practice we'd never go for three months without a single >> feature. >> >> I think it makes sense to agree to aim for the quarterly release being a >> minor release as opposed to aiming for a patch or major. If we aimed for a >> patch or major, this would likely impact our branching strategy. Breaking >> changes would be permitted for a major and we'd need to think about how to >> work with a support branch for the previous major etc. If we aimed for a >> patch we couldn't merge features, etc.
