Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderThis comes crashing down in a nice mudslide the exact moment you start maintaining an older stable release for fixes while also progressing on a newer version. If anything, date codes are useful as later version number component, e.g. 4.1.0.191220. Also, the "When to use" section is getting things quite wrong: Does your project feature a large or constantly-changing scope? Large systems and frameworks, like Ubuntu and Twisted. Amorphous sets of utilities, like Boltons. Wrong question - relevant is: "is…
I was interested to see a more formal definition of calendar versioning than I've come across before, until I saw that it refers to `DD` for short day while `0D` is zero padded - which goes against all date formatting specifications ever... `DD` should be zero-padded and a single `D` unpadded...
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 320
- Total comments
- 142
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-11 | Calendar Versioning | LVB | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-05-08 | CalVer: Versioning based on calendar dates instead of arbitrary numbers | zaiste | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-05-20 | CalVer: Calendar Versioning | adamnemecek | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-06-10 | Calendar VersioningFirst breakout | dmoreno | 108 | 43 |
| 2020-01-06 | CalVer: Calendar VersioningBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 194 | 99 |
| 2021-05-02 | CalVer | tosh | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-08-12 | Calendar Versioning | quickthrower2 | 4 | 0 |
| 2022-10-20 | Calendar Versioning – CalVer | alwillis | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-03-17 | Calendar Versioning | mooreds | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-02-26 | Calendar Versioning | saikatsg | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-06-04 | CalVer: Timely Project Versioning | alexzeitler | 3 | 0 |