Merge branch '194119-improving-release-versioning-practices-in-the-release-page' into 'master'

Improving release versioning

Closes #194119

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!22398

doc/user/project/releases/index.md

@@ -28,6 +28,18 @@ There are several ways to create a Release:
 Start by giving a [description](#release-description) to the Release and
 including its [assets](#release-assets), as follows.
 
+## Release versioning
+
+Release versions are manually assigned by the user in the Release title. GitLab uses [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/) for our releases, and we recommend you do too. Use `(Major).(Minor).(Patch)`, as detailed in the [GitLab Policy for Versioning](../../../policy/maintenance.md#versioning).
+
+For example, for GitLab version `10.5.7`:
+
+- `10` represents the major version. The major release was `10.0.0`, but often referred to as `10.0`.
+- `5` represents the minor version. The minor release was `10.5.0`, but often referred to as `10.5`.
+- `7` represents the patch number.
+
+Any part of the version number can be multiple digits, for example, `13.10.11`.
+
 ### Release description
 
 Every Release has a description. You can add any text you like, but we recommend