[Mesa-dev] Upcoming Mesa releases

[Ian Romanick]

On 05/04/2012 07:33 AM, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> To keep in the habit of doing regular releases, I'd like to propose
>> the following set of release dates.  We had previously discussed
>> doing stable releases monthly and feature releases every six months.
>> This set of dates basically reflects that.
>>
>> I should be able to package up most of these, but I will be on
>> vacation in June.  Perhaps Jakob can handle that one. :)
>
> Sure.
>
>> I've listed the February 2013 release as 8.2.  I think there's a good
>> chance we'll have OpenGL 3.1 by then, so it may end up being 9.0.
>
> Any chance we can do 3.2, or does it involve sudden cold fronts and
> aeronautical members of the suidae family? Being able to develop test
> apps on Linux and get the same functionality as on Mac is kinda cool.

I have pretty much zero confidence that the remaining 3.2 features could 
be implemented and tested to a reasonable level of quality in that time 
frame.  The experience with shipping OpenGL 3.0 earlier this year hasn't 
made me very enthusiastic about committing to aggressive ship dates.

>> 5/18:  Mesa 8.0.3
>> 6/15:  Mesa 8.0.4
>> 7/20:  Mesa 8.0.5
>> 8/17:  Mesa 8.1 / Mesa 8.0.6
>> 9/21:  Mesa 8.1.1
>> 10/19: Mesa 8.1.2
>> 11/16: Mesa 8.1.3
>> 12/14: Mesa 8.1.4
>> 1/18:  Mesa 8.1.5
>> 2/15:  Mesa 8.2 (9.0?) / Mesa 8.1.6
>>
>> Does this sound like a reasonable plan?
>
> Yes, looks good. Will 8.1 be a dev release or are we going to do away
> with those?

It will be a new release with a lot of new functionality.  In this 
industry, people know what that means. :)

> Cheers, Jakob.