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

[Chip Bennett]

You mean you weren't a fan of Linux Kernel versioning, e.g. 2.32.x, etc.?

(See: even Linus agrees that you have to go go X+1.0, eventually!)

Chip

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Peter Westwood
<peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk>wrote:

>
> 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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