Update reproducibility guarantees #82
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Follows #10, #62.
Notably, we now permit value-breaking changes to designated non-portable items (i.e.
StdRng,SmallRng) in patch releases. Motivation: a sufficiently stablerandmay see very few minor/major versions post 1.0; we do not wish to prevent the introduction of new algorithms (e.g. if we chose to replaceChaCha12Rngwith a completely different CSPRNG inrand::rngs::ThreadRng).Other notable changes are a policy on aiming to support prior MAJOR.MINOR versions and a note about
usizein v0.9.