I'd be in favor of a 1.0 release in the next couple of months.
The system is easily stable enough.
Separately, moving to 6 month time-based releases would be a good step.
-- Don
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Gwern Branwen
I spent the other reading a PhD thesis about time-based releases: http://www.cyrius.com/publications/michlmayr-phd.html
All the projects involved seemed to prefer time-based releases, and there was much criticism of releases simply being endlessly dragged out and end-users being hurt by the delays and unclear forecasts.
Let us say I was more than a little reminded of Xmonad and #xmonad. The last major release of xmonad was back when George W. Bush was president.
There are no outstanding patches in http://darcswatch.nomeata.de/repo_http:__code.haskell.org_XMonadContrib.html or http://darcswatch.nomeata.de/repo_http:__code.haskell.org_xmonad.html Since then, awesome has made something like 10 releases; even dwm has made releases. There are plenty of bugs left in Xmonad, but I doubt many will be squashed given another few months or years.
Let's just make the 1.0 release already.
-- gwern http://www.gwern.net