Automatic versioning

[TheElan]

It would be nice to have automatic minor or major version bump on each PR. This way nobody needs to remember to tag things.

[SinTh0r4s]

Automatically parse Tag and add an incremented to merge commit.
But that will add friction for bumping the major versions manually. It would add a step to remove the current tag to the process. Is there an alternative?

[TheElan]

Was thinking the same, would be a tad problematic when we want a major version bump. Maybe we can drive this with a convention like always update minor, unless commit message contains [major update] (should be included in PR title so merge commit includes this in it) and script should bump major

[TheElan]

if somebody misses this thing you could always make dummy commit into master (or a PR with it) to trigger tagging

[SinTh0r4s]

https://axion-release-plugin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

So to summarize:

Firstly, we need to check how forge handles funny semver variants to see if we can fool them somehow.

Secondly, to change the versioning of all mods (again!) will require some serious convincing on the staff. They want something working with all mods and be done with it. Not learn another system (the sad truth). So we might need to prepare some good selling points

Thirdly, some people have issues with syncing git tags to master. How could we Adresse that?