feat: start official releases in the 0.x range

Author: tsvetomir

README.md

@@ -46,3 +46,5 @@ This project has been tested in Travis-CI and Jenkins builds.
 With the above setup, new official releases (bearing the `latest` dist-tag) can be published from `master` by fast-forwarding it to `develop`:
 
     git checkout master && git merge --ff-only develop && git push
+
+> Your first official release will be published with version 0.1.0 to enable automatic releases during initial development. You must mark a commit as a [major release](https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release#major-breaking-release) to release bump the major version to 1. This is different than vanilla semantic-release where your first release is 1.0.0

verifyRelease.js

@@ -6,10 +6,16 @@ module.exports = function (pluginConfig, config, cb) {
     const suffix = `-${config.npm.tag}.${timestamp}`;
     const release = config.nextRelease;
 
-    release.version = release.version.replace(/\-.+$/, suffix);
+    if (release.type === 'initial') {
+      // start releases with 0.1.0 instead of 1.0.0
+      release.version = '0.1.0';
+    } else {
+      release.version = release.version.replace(/\-.+$/, suffix);
+    }
 
     console.log(`Ready for release v${release.version}`);
   }
 
   cb(null);
 };
+