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

[Emil Velikov]

On 12 December 2016 at 15:41, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
None at all. Although it's a good example what I meant with "things
will always be confusing" ;-)

MM is release month, of the said branch.
Emil