[Mesa-dev] Proposal of date-based Mesa versioning for 2017

[Nicolai Hähnle]

On 12.12.2016 16:41, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On 12 December 2016 at 15:28, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As mentioned by others - having the second number represent the month
>> would be better, afaict.
>> Namely: YY.MM.PP. Thus 17.02.01 provides direct and clear feedback that
>>  - 2017 release, from the second month (Feb).
>>  - first bugfix release.
>
> Not being funny, but does this mean that 17.02 bugfix releases would
> have to all be done in February, or could yyyy.mm.xx with xx > 0, mean
> that the release was not done in that month, but just the branching
> was?

While I think the answer to that _should_ be obvious (just look at 
Ubuntu LTS version numbers...), it is one reason why I'm not too keen 
about using the month. I'd say YY.AA.PP with YY = year, AA, PP = simply 
incrementing should be good enough and avoids silly questions like do we 
take the month of the release or of the first -rc? What if the release 
slips into the next month by a few days?

Apart from that, I prefer my bike shed orange ;-)

Cheers,
Nicolai