Addons API: version last build date

[agjohnson]

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Raising this from a support request as a discussion for a potential API change on the addons. The use case here is showing the most recently built versions in the version data for a custom version menu or in the flyout. There are maybe two ways to approach this:

• Add a version sorting option for most recently built versions
• Add build date on the version responses in the API

I feel like the sorting could be optional and we will want to have the last build date on the version instances either way. The sorting mechanism will be prone to randomizing the version list for projects that have to go back and edit a release for any reason.

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[humitos]

The problem I see with either of the approaches listed here is that the endpoint wouldn't be able to be cached anymore. A build on any version will clear the cache for all the versions.

[agjohnson]

Mmm good point. This does feel like a helpful feature for showing how fresh a version is, but not important enough to incur cache invalidation yet.