Sorting of releases with multi digit version parts

[BiNZGi]

The minor version of Elasticsearch can be double digit, e.g. 7.10 and 7.11. The sorting by releaseCycle is wrong in this case, e.g. 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, 7.2, 7.1, 7.11, 7.10.

In #195 I did a workaround with a virtual number in cycleShortHand and sorted by this. I think this could be a problem also in other tools.

The idea is to extend the sorting of such version numbers in _layouts/post.html.

[captn3m0]

The sort_natural filter doesn't work, so perhaps we need a sort_version filter of our own.

[generalmimon]

@usta @captn3m0 Um, I may be missing something obvious at the moment, but why exactly are we letting the stupid machine reorder our releases (and often screw it up) in the first place?

I see that the sorting was introduced in #42, which references issue #25. And @captn3m0 writes this in the initial issue comment #25 (comment):

It makes sense to sort by release date (in desc order
so newer releases are at the top).

(...)

Since releases are a map currently, it is hard to sort them.

This is no longer relevant, because releases are lists now, not maps. See just about any product page source:

endoflife.date/products/python.md

Lines 16 to 27 in 383f384

	releases:
	- releaseCycle: "3.10"
	eol: 2026-10-04
	latest: "3.10.7"
	latestReleaseDate: 2022-09-05
	releaseDate: 2021-10-04
	- releaseCycle: "3.9"
	eol: 2025-10-05
	latest: "3.9.14"
	latestReleaseDate: 2022-09-06
	releaseDate: 2020-10-05
	- releaseCycle: "3.8"

Lists in YAML are guaranteed to preserve order, so the sorting is not needed - if you don't sort it, it will always have exactly the same order in which you specify individual releases.

So I really think we should drop this entire | sort thing here:

endoflife.date/_layouts/product.html

Lines 30 to 31 in 383f384

	{% assign sorted_releases = page.releases | sort: page.sortReleasesBy | reverse %}
	{% for r in sorted_releases %}

and just {% for r in page.releases %}. By doing this, we finally put trust into humans that they know in what order they want releases to be displayed.

[captn3m0]

I like this idea, would clean up the code as well.