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

[Marek Olšák]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Nicolai Hähnle <nhaehnle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

I second that. YY.AA where YY=year, AA \in {0,1,2,3}.

Marek