Quoting Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com>:
That's fine for isolated users supporting only themselves. But it won't win any mind share in the boardroom. If you want widespread deployment to get proper testing (and hence a larger user base) you need a version number that gives business people the confidence to install it. Otherwise you'll be limited to avant garde hobbyists who have nothing to risk.
While, is there really no one between the boardroom and the avant garde hobbyists? I didn't realize there was such a void between those levels...
Once 1.0 locks down, you should see a huge expansion of users. Bug
Yes, well, of course. We all know that already.
fixes (not features!) in 1.0.1 will see further expansion. Any new features (like the recent addition of the wiki to the tarball) should be in the scary and experimental 1.1, not 1.0.
That is simply documentation, not really a feature. And it is actually fairly normal to add and refine documentation during a RC release.
I agree in general with the "no more features" requests, but docs are really a whole different thing. Most shops are working on the docs right up to the last minute for every release.
-- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin
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