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On Thursday, November 14, 2013, David Ripton wrote:

> On 11/14/2013 03:55 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 11/14/2013 2:43 PM, David Ripton wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/11/2013 03:35 PM, David Ripton wrote:
>>>
>>>  I'll volunteer to do this release.  I'll wait 24 hours from the
>>>> timestamp of this email for input first.  So, if anyone has opinions
>>>> about the timing of this release, please speak up.
>>>>
>>>> (In particular, I'd like to do a release *before* Matt Riedermann's DB2
>>>> support patch https://review.openstack.org/#/c/55572/ lands, just in
>>>> case it breaks anything.  Of course we could do another release shortly
>>>> after it gets in, to make folks who use DB2 happy.)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Update:
>>>
>>> There's now a "0.8" tag in Git but that release failed to reach PyPI, so
>>> please ignore it.
>>>
>>> Thanks fungi and mordred for helping debug what went wrong.
>>>
>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/56449/ (a one-liner) should fix the
>>> problem.  Once it gets approved, I will attempt to push "0.8.1".
>>>
>>>
>> Any particular reason to go with 0.8 rather than 0.7.3 as a bug fix
>> release?
>>
>
> New maintainers, 2 years since a release, SQLAlchemy 0.8 compatibility (we
> hope).
>
> Even in projects that use strict semantic versioning, 0.x just means "not
> ready yet."  There are no stability guarantees until 1.0.
> http://semver.org/ , point 4
>
>
If you have users, you should be making stability guarantees, or at least
strongly communicating the lack thereof.


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