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

[Otto]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
> Correct, but Version strings can be both readable (and order
> understood by the masses) and be "just another number I don't
> understand". to many people, 2.10 would've been equal to 2.1

Irrelevant, I feel. If people get it wrong, then that's kinda their problem.

> This is waaay off topic, but, the other suggestion for core is though,
> When would've 3.0 actually "made sense" in a 2.10 release world? long
> story short: It probably will never make sense due to the fast release
> cycle, and limited changes between releases, unlike other applications
> where our 2.8 -> 2.9 change would be their Version 5 to Version 6
> release (or more likely, V5->6 would be our 2.5 -> 2.9 release)

Honestly, if it was up to me, the major version number would be around
5 or 6 or so by now. I'd have changed the major version with every
major UI overhaul.

-Otto