[Mesa-dev] Move mesa version scheme to a more common style ?

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This is an old question that I had laying around - why doesn't mesa use
> a more conventional numbering for the development/rc releases ?
>
> Eg.
> mesa 10.4.0-rc1 -> 10.3.99.901
> mesa 10.4.0-rc2 -> 10.3.99.902
> ...
> mesa 10.4.0     -> 10.4.0
> mesa 10.4.1-rc1 -> 10.4.0.901
> ... you get the idea.
>
> Afaics most freedesktop project use it plus a big hunk of gnome.
>
> Are there any objections if I move to the above format starting with
> mesa 10.4-rc1 ? I would appreciate any feedback over the next 2-3 days,
> and based on it I'll tag the first RC.

Huh? What's wrong with the current thing? Can I put in an alternate
suggestion of getting the other projects to switch to the mesa (and
linux kernel and wine and many many many other projects) rc version
naming scheme?

  -ilia