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

[Peter Westwood]

On 16 Sep 2011, at 13:55, Otto wrote:

> 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.


Version inflation like that is lame.

What we have now is the most pragmatic solution IMHO.
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Peter Westwood
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