Getting To Know Our Readify Consultants

Jake Ginnivan is a Senior Consultant at Readify. He's an open source enthusiast, blogger, speaker, microsoft MVP and a fan of good beer. He is a contributor to a number of open source projects including AutoMapper, Shouldly, NSubstitute, XBehave, DbUp and Funnelweb. The best way to get in touch with Jake is to flick him a tweet. Today I gave him a call to talk about his latest efforts on a project called GitVersion. GitVersion is an Easy Semantic Versioning solution for projects using Git. We started the conversation by taking a quick look at what Semantic Version. Jake is taking the lead on the next release of GitVersion. To give you some background. GitVersion has been on GitHub since August 2013. Since then it's had 22 releases with 54 contributors and it's used by the team NServiceBus and Octopus Deploy. I got to using GitVersion on a project this week and I found it interesting to see how many different ways it can be used for different solutions. GitVersion works on many levels. It can assess y