Mesa May Move To A Date-Based Versioning System

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa May Move To A Date-Based Versioning System

Beginning next year, Mesa developers so far appear favorable to moving towards a date-based versioning concept...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-2017-Version

[dungeon]

So in 5 years there will be mesa 22.2.2

[starshipeleven]

inb4 people complaining about firefox-like versioning land.

[microcode]

inb4 people complaining about firefox-like versioning land.

This would avoid that though. In about ten years firefox has gone about 40 major versions. This scheme would advance exactly ten major versions in ten years.
Only point at which it would become ridiculous is if we are still maintaining Mesa in year 2101; and if that's the case then what's the point to trying in life?

[Azrael5]

Marek is an extraordinary contributor.

[andre30correia]

a good idea, easy to now what version and year we have in some distro

[yoshi314]

that kind of versioning would make sense in entire X.org package bundle. instead of wondering what belongs into each xorg release, we could just compare release dates.

in case of mesa alone - not really sure.

[pal666]

that kind of versioning would make sense in entire X.org package bundle. instead of wondering what belongs into each xorg release, we could just compare release dates.

in case of mesa alone - not really sure.

mesa does not belong to x.org package bundle

[kaprikawn]

inb4 people complaining about firefox-like versioning land.

The proposed versioning policy by mesa is sensible.

The versioning policy of Firefox is dumb and childish.

[starshipeleven]

The proposed versioning policy by mesa is sensible.

The versioning policy of Firefox is dumb and childish.

see? here is someone complaining about Firefox versioning!