0.10 release process - time based release?

[Martin Pool]

On  3 Aug 2006, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 12:05 +0300, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> > Just curious: why next release will be 0.10 instead of 1.0 (or 2.0)?
> > And when Bazaar jump over 0.xxx?
> 
> Well, at some point we should switch to 2.0, and I think the right time
> to do that is when we are a complete replacements for baz. Right now the
> only feature that we are not able to replace from baz is
> tree-configurations, which our neested-trees-by-reference feature will
> completely fulfil.
> 
> So for me, I'd be voting for 2.0 on the release after that arrives.
> However, it might be wise to get the high performance smart server in
> place first, because a major version release will get lots of attention,
> and having great performance at that point would be really nice.

My take would be that we should call it .0 when we have a complete and
well-rounded set of core features in its own right.  To me that
primarily means improved performance including a smart server, and more
polish on UI, bugs, and documentation.

-- 
Martin