The "versions" list is ordered in a weird way

[facundobatista]

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• Read the Docs project URL: https://readthedocs.org/projects/fades/
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Expected Result

The "versions" list be easily consumable by human.

Actual Result

The "version" list is ordered alphabetically, but reversed, and giving numbers priority over letters.

[stsewd]

That's how it supposed to be, we have that order to select the stable version. So, most of the time people want to select a recent version.

[facundobatista]

If most of the time people want to select a recent version, why not to order it by the commit's timestamp? that's real "recentness", not second-guessing by the tag name...

[stsewd]

See #5151

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[facundobatista]

I saw #5151, it's a branch about applying a "smart" sort to this list.

My point (unanswered here) is that if people want to select a recent version (@stsewd words above) why not sorting about commit timestamp?

[stsewd]

We don't save that information in the db as far as I know

[stsewd]

We discussed this with the team, and we decided that sort by senver is the best path.

[humitos]

A hacky implementation for this is happening at #6680