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

[Ernst Sjöstrand]

I've seen many get confused by the fact that Ubuntu 16.10 is newer than
16.04, they think of it as 16.1 and 16.4. So avoiding that is nice.

Regards
//Ernst

2016-10-02 13:56 GMT+02:00 Nicolai Hähnle <nhaehnle at gmail.com>:

> On 01.10.2016 22:22, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> That's fine for something like Ubuntu where they really stick to their two
> releases per year, in the same months each year. I'm not so sure that
> that's a realistic goal for Mesa, and if releases *aren't* consistently
> happening in the same months, you end up introducing a lot of confusion
> about which version numbers exist and which don't.
>
> Time-based with YY.0 for the first release of the year, and then YY.1,
> YY.2, etc. works fine.
>
> Cheers,
> Nicolai
>
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