Revolver
Revolver (short for Revolution Versioning) is a versioning scheme inspired by CalDev. It uses a date and time as versioning numbers but it uses the French Republican Calendar (also called the revolutionary calendar in France) for the date with the Holocene Calendar for the year, and the Decimal time for the time.
Scheme
Revolver introduces a simple versioning convention :
YYYYY[.MM[.DD[-HMM]]]
- YYYYY - (12019, 12020, ...) - Year in the Holocene Calendar, or the current year in the [Gregorian Calendar] plus 10 000
- MM - (01-12) - Month in the French Republican Calendar
- DD - (01-30) - Day in the French Republican Calendar
- H - (0-9) - Hour in Decimal time
- MM - (00-99) - Minutes in Decimal Time
The format allows flexible release cycles by omitting one or more part. For example, if you plan to release hourly, you may opt for the full YYYYY.MM.DD-HMM but if you plan to release monthy, you could opt for the much simpler YYYYY.MM.
Can I release quarterly and add the quarter in the version number ?
What are you ? A multi-million euros company ? No, this versioning scheme does not plan to implement quarters in the version number.
API
now
Returns a version number corresponding to the current time in the format YYYYY.MM.DD-HMM.
from_iso
Takes a string in the format of ISO 8601. Returns a version number in the format YYYYY.MM.DD-HMM.
to_iso
Takes a string in the format of RevolVer. Returns the date in the ISO 8601 format.
Credits
- The RevolVer API uses the metric-time library for Python
- The CSS theme for the front page is Minist by Miguel Bartelsman