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 <nhaeh...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev >
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