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

[Tobias Klausmann]

On 01.10.2016 21:46, Marek Olšák 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?

Why not just use year.month instead, would be more accurate...and 
releases happen semi random anyway and not after a given time.

Greetings,
Tobias

>
> Marek
>