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

Ernst Sjöstrand ernstp at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 12:13:50 UTC 2016


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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