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[Charlie Poole <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Charlie Poole <charlie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> This page is in a very odd order: first all downloads from the 2.6
>>> series, then the
>>> 2.6.1 series, finally the 2.5 series. Why isn't the 2.6.1 series - the
>>> latest - on top?
>>>
>>> I thought this might reflect the bug at
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/405597
>>> but trunk isn't used for any of these. It could be related, however.
>>
>> Lp does not know how to order releases. End of story. There is terrible
>> contention between users who want time sequenced releases, or version
>> sequenced releases.
>
> And yet http:/launchpad.net/nunitv2/+downloads does seem to be following
> some sort of strange logic. If I understood why my 2.6.1rc release is
> positioned where it is, perhaps I could change something about it to
> conform to that logic.
>
> As it stands, leaving out that one release on the 2.6.1 series, all the other
> downloads are in reverse order of both release date and version number.
> Why doesn't that one release fall into the same order? Can you give me
> a link to the source that determines the order?
>
> Charlie