SemVer badge/shield.

[jmalloc]

Just a quick thought I had - I think it would be beneficial to have a small, official "SemVer" icon/badge/shield to display on websites, README files, etc, that indicates a project uses semantic versioning. It's often hard to tell from tag names alone, and this would remove any doubt.

[Tieske]

I would prefer an optional tag eg.a trailing sv (space sv) which would allow existing systems to automatically determine whether a version could be parsed as SemVer. This would make it a lot easier to transition from a proprietary versioning schedule to a standard semver based schedule.

For human communications though I like the idea of a batch.

[BitDrifter]

+1 for both Ideas.

[jmalloc]

A friend of mine linked me the image below, which is a modified example from the "shields as a service" issue on olivierlacan/shields. I like the idea of it stylistically matching badges used by other projects (Travis CI, etc), at the very least in terms of dimensions.

original url: http://calm-shore-6115.herokuapp.com/?label=semver&value=2.0.0-RC1&color=green

[chadwhitacre]

I would prefer an optional tag eg.a trailing sv (space sv) which would allow existing systems to automatically determine whether a version could be parsed as SemVer.

@Tieske There are multiple versions of SemVer though. How would you communicate that?

[Tieske]

using the sv postfix, it could simply be appended; 1.2.3 sv2.0.0 package version 1.2.3 based on SemVer 2.0.0.

[chadwhitacre]

@Tieske Noted on badges/shields#36.

[AaronLasseigne]

👍 A badge would be great.

[rlidwka]

Will 1.2.3+sv be good enough for this?

Strong "-1" for badges, all of them, because most of them are essentially a web bugs tracking users activity on the internet.

[haacked]

I'm not sold on the idea, but if we're going to discuss a badge, it seems a PR is a good place. Closing due to #126