[wp-testers] Theme Upload Bug on WordPress.org

[Otto]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
> That sounds like the expected behaviour to me, You're reading it as a
> decimal, whereas, WordPress is reading it as a version string.
> 0.75 vs 0.8 - decimal
> 0.75 vs 0.08 - how version strings work in PHP
>
> If in future you want a version between 0.7 and 0.8, you'd be best
> using 0.7.1 or 0.7.5 - the format is major.minor.patch-release that
> format will work how you expect :)
>
> D

Yeah, that's the way versioning should work, but it's hard to convince
people of that when WP went from 2.9 to 3.0...

But in a *normal* versioning scheme, X.Y.Z is the version, and X, Y,
and Z are unrelated integers. Question: What properly comes after 2.9?
Answer: 2.10.

-Otto