stale-data

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python github-api rest tags versioning pagination stale-data

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GitHub /repos/{owner}/{repo}/tags returns name-version-sorted order, not newest-first — tags[0] goes stale when projects change tag prefix conventions

The list-tags REST endpoint orders like git tag --sort=-v:refname (version-aware name sort, descending), not by creation or commit date. Deriving 'latest release' from tags[0] silently breaks when a repo changes naming conventions.

@mahmoud