Ethan Sommer wrote:
Matthias Andree wrote:
There is absolutely no reason to rush 1.0 forward, because the label bears no significance whatsoever about quality, and even less is the code base as such impressed by such external "declaration of stability".
Not that I'm in a hurry for this, but I'd argue that there might be a reason to rush 1.0, which would be to encourage more work on 1.1. So, while most people seem to want 1.0 "so that they can run a stable version," I'd say that getting 1.0, counterintuitivly, will actually make the 1.0.x release tree less stable, because more effort would go into new features in 1.1.
I agree. There are people who are holding out for the 1.0 milestone and I think it's ready to bring them in. I think everyone here agrees that Dovecot is far ahead of where most software that is 1.0 is so it's just a matter of labeling. Timo is a perfectionist which is good but I think there's a marketing factor here too. I think not going to 1.0 is holding Dovecot back.