Discussion on: How should Forem do versioning?

Are we good with supporting older versions for months or years? What about security fixes? How do we apply security patches to older versions?

I feel like there's probably got to be a concept of what we are doing right now, and what our plan is for the future.

Like... For now, I'd say we should really move full steam ahead and not try and support old versions, create a culture that you need to get up to date. In the future we should have a more thorough and forgiving approach.

I think our approach and plan for security patches is a wholistic discussion we should have in the near future. I have some thoughts here.

I also like the dates a lot. The one thing I really want for practical purposes in the near future is to print the version in the footer— Especially while we're in the "sloppy" phase of our processes here. It really helps to be able to eyeball what version of the site is running, along with an endpoint like /api/meta for info like that. All in all the human readability of the date is really practical, especially because unlike a pure computer-consumption API, changes to our site have so much human emotional consideration if we make a choice, ship a design tweak, etc. The humans should be able to see that we're on the version that shipped such and such date.

Along those lines, it might be nice if we established a "nickname" protocol for our releases. I'd be supportive of a "Friends"-esque naming convention. 😄