[xmonad] Releasing 1.0

[Don Stewart]

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 <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>