[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #1034: api.wordpress.org/plugins/update-check/1.1/ enhancement

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#1034: api.wordpress.org/plugins/update-check/1.1/ enhancement
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  Reporter:  brettshumaker  |      Owner:
      Type:  enhancement    |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal         |  Component:  api.wordpress.org
Resolution:                 |   Keywords:  close
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Comment (by dd32):

 WordPress itself doesn't use semantic versioning, and I don't think we
 should recommend it either.

 The versioning system which WordPress, and the majority of plugins follow,
 is mostly decimal (I know, I just pointed out above that we don't use
 decimal) in that `2.0` & `1.9` are both major releases, we tend to follow
 the `major.major.minor` versioning system - for example, WordPress `4.2.2`
 is really `42.2` in semantic versioning (We just don't use the patch
 level).

 https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/how-the-release-cycle-works
 /version-numbering/ describes it as well.

 Likewise, we would highly recommend against using
 `major.minor.micro.patch` format that some plugin have used in the past
 (and subsequently seen the error in their ways, and changed).

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