Issue #21349 has been updated by hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA). Status changed from Open to Rejected
Versions starting with 0 often imply a prereleased or beta status.
No, we don't use that versioning policy. ---------------------------------------- Bug #21349: default gems should have version >= 1 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21349#change-113333 * Author: masterleep2 (Bill Lipa) * Status: Rejected * ruby -v: ruby 3.4.4 (2025-05-14 revision a38531fd3f) +PRISM [x86_64-linux] * Backport: 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN, 3.4: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- Many of the default gems have version numbers less than 1, including venerable offerings such as net-http and yaml. Versions starting with 0 often imply a prereleased or beta status. Surely if a gem has been released as part of the base distribution of ruby itself for a number of years, it is at least worthy of a 1.0 version number. This would reduce uncertainty or confusion about the quality / production readiness of gems distributed with ruby. From ruby 3.4.4: benchmark (default: 0.4.0) cgi (default: 0.4.2) delegate (default: 0.4.0) english (default: 0.8.0) error_highlight (default: 0.7.0) find (default: 0.2.0) io-console (default: 0.8.0) io-nonblock (default: 0.3.1) io-wait (default: 0.3.1) net-http (default: 0.6.0) net-protocol (default: 0.2.2) open-uri (default: 0.5.0) open3 (default: 0.2.1) optparse (default: 0.6.0) ostruct (default: 0.6.1) pathname (default: 0.4.0) pp (default: 0.6.2) prettyprint (default: 0.2.0) pstore (default: 0.1.4) readline (default: 0.0.4) reline (default: 0.6.0) resolv (default: 0.6.0) ruby2_keywords (default: 0.0.5) securerandom (default: 0.4.1) shellwords (default: 0.2.2) singleton (default: 0.3.0) tempfile (default: 0.3.1) time (default: 0.4.1) timeout (default: 0.4.3) tmpdir (default: 0.3.1) tsort (default: 0.2.0) un (default: 0.3.0) weakref (default: 0.1.3) yaml (default: 0.4.0) -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/