I really had to fight for versioning. Everyone was just patch version here. Breaking changes in the API, new features, completely overhauled design? Well, it’s 0.6.24 instead of 0.6.23 now.

But gladly we’re moving away from version numbers alltogether. Starting next year it will be 2025.1.0 with monthly releases

Blender had a reeeeaaally long way though, I remember a time where Blender was quite big already but Maya just was miles ahead in terms of usability. Nowadays they are not only even, Blender is probably used more often since it’s not only free but more people know how to use it than Maya

Also then there are Jour Fixes and standups for the side projects you got rented out too and and and

The problem is that a lot of people don’t understand when to ignore the rules and just stick with them forever.

We had a developer once that always said KISS KISS KISS whenever we pointed out that her functions are working but not reusable, so she wrote 20 functions that all did the same thing, but with slightly different parameters. And that’s just one of the examples