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

[Jason Ekstrand]

I could get behind that.  The only other thing that makes sense to me would
be to drop minor versoning all together and just have an incrementing
integer (with patch releases for stable, of course).  The year.quarter
scheme is fine with me too.

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 12:46 PM, 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.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Marek
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