Plugin version numbers

The plugin “Changelog” is a free text added by the plugin authors in the readme.txt, so it would be almost impossible to do checks on that.
The “Developers > Other Versions” data is taken directly from the SVN repo, so I think it would be possible to add a date.
Anyway if you go to “Developers > Browse the code > Development Log” you’ll find a list of the plugins SVN commits, including tagged releases with dates.

@marco “Anyway if you go to “Developers > Browse the code > Development Log” you’ll find a list of the plugins SVN commits, including tagged releases with dates.”

So I have to dig through the items in the “Log Message” column for something that says “new version” or version update” or “updated to version” or “tag version” or whatever the developer decided to call it, or even in some cases what the developer decided to call it that day (because that isn’t even consistent within the same plugin in some cases), and then click in the “Age” column and use the date on the top of the page? Does that give the accurate final release date? Geez. Really doesn’t align with all the user friendliness of everything else in WordPress, but better than nothing I guess.

Shouldn’t you take this up with the plugin authors causing the issue?

Yeah, I agree that it’s better than nothing. You may have better chance if you go to “Developers > Browse the code > Browse in Trac” and open the “tags” folder. Those are the official releases with dates.

“Shouldn’t you take this up with the plugin authors causing the issue?”

I would think it should be build in somewhere so it is forced and consistent. I am not blaming the developers. I don’t know enough about how the system works to know if it is possible or not. Sorry I brought it up…..didn’t mean to sound like I am ranting.

“Yeah, I agree that it’s better than nothing. You may have better chance if you go to “Developers > Browse the code > Browse in Trac” and open the “tags” folder. Those are the official releases with dates. “

OK, but where are the dates? Use the same method as I specified above?

@pjc132 See screenshot

Thanks…..Ah, hover over it with the mouse. That also matches the date on the top of the page when you click on the “Age”; not sure how the time correlates between the two, but I don’t need that kind of accuracy anyway.

For the “Love of God”, could you force developers to add dates to the older (previous) versions numbers of plugins that they list either in the “Changelog” or the “Developers > Other Versions” section of www.remarpro.com.

Force. No. Wish I could. Heck, I’d settle for them all using SVN properly :/

“Developers > Other Versions” is auto-generated by the tags used, and again, if they use SVN properly it’s helpful. Us adding date stamps might be possible but it would be easy to mess with since we could just check for the date of creation of the tag. If you deleted and re-added, it wouldn’t help.

And of course then you’re right back to using SVN properly *sigh*

Well at least I see how to get the date now.