[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #915: More information to enable making plugin update decisions on plugin stats tab
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#915: More information to enable making plugin update decisions on plugin stats
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Reporter: galbaras | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: reopened
Priority: normal | Component: Plugins Directory
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by Otto42):
> To make things more manageable, rather than reducing the resolution, you
could reduce the number of versions being shown.
For plugins, we're not actually storing the data at that level. For speed
and size reasons, we're storing "3.8" not "3.8.1". Actually changing this
would be a much more difficult task than you think. The storage
requirements balloon way up very quickly, and the method by which we query
that data to produce those numbers would need to be completely reworked
from the ground up.
It's a *lot* of data, in other words. This sort of version reduction
approach allows for that data to be reduced to manageable sizes for the
time being while still providing useful information for the majority of
plugin developers.
Realistically, plugin authors should be using the major.minor.revision
scheme anyway. There should never be any reason to not update from 1.0 to
1.0.1. If there is a change which is "breaking", then the version should
reflect that outside of just the revision number.
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Ticket URL: <https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/915#comment:5>
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