Merge 16fcded into 75e9e24

Author: jsjoeio

docs/MAINTAINING.md

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     - [Milestones](#milestones)
     - [Triage](#triage)
     - [Project Boards](#project-boards)
+  - [Versioning](#versioning)
 
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@@ -56,3 +57,14 @@ We use project boards for projects or goals that span multiple milestones.
 Think of this as a place to put miscellaneous things (like testing, clean up stuff, etc). As a maintainer, random todos may come up here and there. This gives you a place to add notes temporarily before opening a new issue. Given that our release milestones function off of issues, we believe tasks should have dedicated issues.
 
 It also gives us a way to separate the issue triage from bigger-picture, long-term work.
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+## Versioning
+
+`<major.minor.patch>`
+
+Because code-server is an application and not a library or framework, traditional [semver](https://semver.org/) doesn't really make sense for the project.
+
+Instead, we default to patch updates. We only use minor updates when:
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+- VS Code bumps minor
+- we update our plugin API