Development methods

Versioning

The software version number conforms to SemVer semantic 2.0.0, aka v<MAJOR>.<MINOR>.<PATCH>

Suffixes alpha or beta are not used

This project conforms to the usual gitflow workflow as seen in

Report to Vincent Driessen page a-successful-git-branching-model for a detailed explanation of this workflow

Branches are named as follows:

branch name	description
`master`	usual main git branch, always holds the last software version and its tag plus documents not changing the sw version
`hotfix-vx.y.z`	hotfixes branches
`release-vx.y.0`	releases branches, patch number should always be 0 here
`develop`	dev branch
`any name`	feature branches