Versioning for Shiny Apps and data science projects

[gadenbuie]

GerkeLab/epiTAD#2 (comment)

• major l+1.0.0
  • release associated with publication submission
  • substantial rewrite of app
  • changing underlying data sources (e.g. replacing existing data with data from a new source, not just an update of data)
• minor l.m+1.0
  • breaking changes in user-facing portion of the app (e.g. removing a figure from app)
  • adding a new user-facing feature (e.g. adding a new table)
  • updating data sources to latest version
• patch l.m.n+1
  • backend changes that don't break app behavior (e.g. refactoring logic)
  • changes that improve existing features (e.g. adding color options to a plot feature)
• dev l.m.n.9000
  • indicates that a feature is not complete yet