README

This package provides Alibaba Cloud API metadata as PHP array files,
generated from the original JSON metadata.

The PHP array files are pre-generated from the `acs-metadata-build`
repository, and the artifacts are hosted on Cloudflare R2. To update
metadata, set the bucket name in the `R2_BUCKET` environment variable and
specify the release tag with `TAG`, then run the Makefile target:

    R2_BUCKET=<your-bucket-name> TAG=<version> make deploy


Versioning
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This package follows the version format `MAJOR.MINOR.YYYYMMDD`.

The patch component uses a date instead of an incrementing number to
make the freshness of the metadata immediately visible.

- **Major** version increments indicate breaking changes to the metadata
  schema.
- **Minor** version increments indicate backward-compatible changes to
  the metadata schema.
- **Patch** version represents the metadata snapshot date in `YYYYMMDD`
  format and indicates when the metadata was generated from Alibaba
  Cloud.

Consumers should depend on `^MAJOR.MINOR`, for example:

    "lizhineng/afterglow-metadata": "^1.0"