Release versioning sort does not work as expected (following semantic releases)

[mljlynch]

Environment

SaaS (https://sentry.io/)

Version

No response

Identification

fig-food-is-good

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open an issue (i.e. https://sentry.io/organizations/fig-food-is-good/issues/3423370412/events/?cursor=0%3A50%3A0&environment=production&project=5683151&referrer=issue-stream&sort=-release&statsPeriod=14d)
2. Sort by version

Expected Result

3.12.4 is the latest version (not 3.9.0)

Actual Result

3.9.0 is the latest version

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Improvement by Unito

[souredoutlook]

Thanks @mljlynch for reporting, I paginated through the list and found where it looks like we're sorting 3.13.* below 3.2.*

I'll route this to the correct team.

[getsentry-release]

Routing to @getsentry/workflow for triage. ⏲️

[mljlynch]

Thanks @mljlynch for reporting, I paginated through the list and found where it looks like we're sorting 3.13.* below 3.2.*

Yes, one thing I wondered is that we have a build number appended to the release, which may be messing up some sort of isSemanticVersion parsing.

Either way, glad to help.

[souredoutlook]

I am not sure what the underlying query looks like, but release names are strings when not broken into their component parts for semver. And the screenshot I shared is what I would expect to see if we were sorting your releases alphabetically. I've let the team know about my assumptions.

[armenzg]

Thanks @mljlynch for filing! This is a real issue. I've reproduced it and added it to the backlog.

[InterstellarStella]

It looks like this is still an issue.

[getsantry[bot]]

Routing to @getsentry/product-owners-dashboards for triage ⏲️

[k-fish]

@InterstellarStella you'll have to add the example dashboard for the screenshot since I tried to repro, currently it alphabetically sorts (which is why 2.10.0 will be after 2.2.0), which is where we're currently supporting sorting releases, but it looks from your screenshot that the alphabetical sort is broken even.

[InterstellarStella]

Hey @k-fish sure thing, here's the dashboard.

[k-fish]

@InterstellarStella okay so it is sorting properly on the underlying release name, but you're using releases across projects (which makes sense it would sort differently. So that we don't have a huge text field in the column we alias it (and link out) to just the version. If you want the full text to show up you can use tags[release], otherwise this is still sorting alphabetically, which we don't have plans to change this at the moment.

[InterstellarStella]

Hi @k-fish you're right on that one. What about this dashboard, specifically the "Release Crash Table" widget? If we pick more releases and sort by release, the sorting doesn't seem right.

[k-fish]

@InterstellarStella in this case it's not a release column from the errors & transactions dataset, it's releases (sessions,.. etc) which I'm not as familiar with, TE team might be able to help you on that one cc: @getsentry/telemetry-experience

[InterstellarStella]

@getsentry/telemetry-experience any insights on this?