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While adhering to the SemVer policy would be ideal, it's currently not feasible due to existing processes and conventions already in place both in the Open Source as well as IBM internal communities. That being said, versioning should be changed such that the minor version is only updated on an IEAM release at first and then independently as determined by the LF Edge Open Horizon community. The patch version should be updated whenever there is any commit made to the repository. Build numbers should be added via a unique value as determined by the GitHub Action.
Changelog work is TBD. Need to talk to LF EdgeX Foundary DevOps WG