[ldiracdelta]

Perhaps it is just http://semver.org/ nothing wrong with semver.

[heisenbit]

FYI: Oct. 8 release by the Angular team on their adoption of semantic versioning and handling of rc. and beta releases. Looks like they are going for a major release every roughly 9 months:

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2016/10/versioning-and-releasi...