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Versioniong policy
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Deprecation policy
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If some part of the specifications are marked :code:`deprecated`, they will be removed following the next 2 regular releases.

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Versioning policy
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:code:`<major>.<minor>.<micro>`

The number in each part is increased when,

<major>
    A significant change is made to the specifications of mcdecoder.
    :code:`0` means that mcdecoder is under evaluation against a real use case.
<minor>
    Some features are added to or removed from mcdecoder.
<micro>
    Some bugs are fixed or some improvements are taken place.