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Background

Now that we're Forge-compatible, we really need to correlate the version numbers between the RPMs and the metadata.json files.

I am proposing that we move to a Ruby-style semantic versioning construct which will mean that the -X part of the RPM spec file will only be used for items that only affect the RPM release and not the Forge release.

In other words: 

X.Y.Z-R 
 
X -> Breaking Change 
Y -> New Features 
Z -> Bug Fixes 
R -> RPM Only

Pros

• This should be simple to automate for:
  • linting/validation
  • (eventually) RPM spec file generation
• The existing modules won't take much work to normalize since we used this convention while creating the missing metadata.json files during SIMP-398 and SIMP-667.

Cons

• Our zeal for order may snuff out a minuscule-but-still-free avenue for creativity, thus hastening the day when life will be uniformly dull and joyless.

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