Develop strategy for managing versions, branches and dist bundles

[jimbojw]

Currently:

• The main branch is behind.
• dev branch is used for developing new features.
• dev branch has incremented package number, but dist directory does not consistently match.

We need a strategy for handling version increments as well as producing dist directory artifacts. This strategy should be documented somewhere, probably in the project README.

Especially important in concert with #5