From ccc77cdaf724f7386ff4986bd14b636636c09edf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roberto Rosario <roberto.rosario.gonzalez@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 23:47:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation section of version numbering.

---
 docs/topics/development.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/topics/development.rst b/docs/topics/development.rst
index 46fcf90bd4..1682d08c12 100644
--- a/docs/topics/development.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/development.rst
@@ -423,3 +423,16 @@ Wheel package
     $ pip install <path of the Git repository>/dist/mayan_edms-x.y.z-py2-none-any.whl
     $ mayan-edms.py initialsetup
     $ mayan-edms.py runserver
+
+
+Version numbering
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Mayan EDMS uses the Semantic Versioning (http://semver.org/) method to choose
+version numbers along with Python's PEP-0440 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/)
+to format them.
+
+X.YaN   # Alpha release
+X.YbN   # Beta release
+X.YrcN  # Release Candidate
+X.Y     # Final release