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

[Igor Gnatenko]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> [adding mesa-maintainers to the mix]
>
> On 1 October 2016 at 20:46, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I propose that we use versioning in the form of "year.quarter".
>>
>> 2017 would start with 17.0, then 17.1, 17.2, 17.3 for following
>> quarters of the year, respectively.
>> 2018 would start with 18.0, then 18.1, 18.2, 18.3.
>>
>> The motivation is that you can easily tell when a specific Mesa
>> version was released with an accuracy of 3 months.
>>
>> That's the only scheme that seems practical to me. Everything else
>> seems arbitrary or random.
>>
> Afaict the only expectation from version numbers, is to never go back
> in time. Anything else is a manner of personal interpretation and
> there is will always someone who get confused.
> Look at how [some] projects steadily roll in their 50s ;-)
>
> That said, having a bit of a change is a good idea, esp. since we're
> unlikely to have a major bump anytime soon.
>
> 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.
>
>  * Distro/package maintainers, let us know if the above sounds fine on your end.
>
> Since this will have an impact on the tarball URL I'm bringing forward
> a question which has been asked a few times:
>
>  * Should we drop the $VERSION directory in the URL, since it causes a
> fair bit of nuisance during RC stage.
> Namely from:
> https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/$VERSION/mesa-$VERSION.tar.{xz,gz}
> to:
> https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/mesa-$VERSION.tar.{xz,gz}
>
> Maintainers, kindly reply on both topics, even if you're neutral.
Like this idea, not sure how painful it will be to manage bugfixes and
under which terms will be stable branches (and which branches are
going to be stable).
>
> Thanks
> Emil
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