[Mesa-dev] Mesa 13.0.0 release plan (Was Re: Mesa 12.1.0 release plan (Was Re: Next Mesa release, anyone?))

[Marek Olšák]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2016 5:14 PM, "Timothy Arceri" <timothy.arceri at collabora.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 15:56 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> > On 28 September 2016 at 19:53, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > It's been almost 4 months since the 12.0 branch was created, and
>> > > soon
>> > > it will have been 3 months since Mesa 12.0 was released.
>> > >
>> > > Is there any reason we haven't created the stable branch yet?
>> > >
>> > > Ideally, we would time the release so that it's 1-2 months before
>> > > fall
>> > > distribution releases.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Thanks Marek !
>> >
>> > In all honesty I was secretly hoping that we'll get Dave/Bas RADV for
>> > 12.1.
>>
>> I believe the release should be 13?? Core Mesa and the Intel driver
>> have reached 4.4 this release also core Mesa is now at 4.5 despite not
>> being enabled anywhere.
>
> My personal preference, for whatever it's worth, would be to call it 12.1.
> The 12.0 release was the biggest release we've had in a long time and it
> seems odd to me to jump to 13.0 right away when we really haven't done much
> at all in terms of new features. (I think it's only 2 or 3 desktop features
> in the case of Intel.  A bit more on the ES side I guess).

The rule is that the major version must be bumped when the desktop GL
version increases, but we can change that to "bump the major version
after XX.9", i.e. after 10 releases.

Marek