Versioning and performers
Hello all, I was wondering how you deal with score versioning in relation to performers. In particular: how do you communicate score changes after a score has been "officially" released? I tend to work on multiple scores in parallel over a long period of time, so this is a particularly relevant question for me.
For my own music, any scores versioned 0.x are playable-works-in-progress: whenever a version goes public (for example, in a forum post, when printing a version for performers to practice), I up-version the score, so that I can keep track of which versions are out in the wild. When playing a 0.x score in public, performers are expected to always play the newest 0.x version available. Public recordings of a 0.x score are prohibited.
Scores take a long time to reach version 1.x, and I only bump the version to 1.x if I can live with the score being recorded. I'm particularly interested on how you would handle changes after this point. Personally, I don't mind there being multiple "authorative" 1.x versions floating around, but I try to keep changes minor after a score hits 1.0. This approach works for me because my works are usually small-scale (I mostly compose art songs); I could imagine this being much different when composing orchestral works for example.