Thanks, after working with django for a while and having a few nagging concerns it's nice to get good answers!
Essentially, for a long time, the last official release had been 0.91
(ie before magic-removal), but probably 90% of people on the lists
were just running out of SVN trunk, to get the magic-removal stuff.
People were starting to report managerial issues, namely, their
managers didn't want them releasing web pages that were running out of
Subversion code.
Of course condemning things that aren't yet 1.0 out of hand is pretty silly, but the basis for that old trope isn't just old-school beauracracy.
The issue is that until the development branch sprouts a stable branch, and development of 1.x begins, we're all forced to swallow code changes to get bugfixes. The code changes might be ultra-super-fabulous, but it still means that incorporating a bugfix might mean having to fix a bunch of stuff in our code that was broken by those changes. If getting a bugfix means possibly weeks of fixing regression problems for a big project, well, that can be a problem. If the bugfix is a critical security hole that lets John E. Hacker wipe your database or steal it's content, it can be a *big* problem.
I know there are big sites running off the django trunk, and that's great proof that it's near 1.0. But at the same time, as the number of big sites running django's trunk grows, so does the need for a stable release.
Coding against the trunk is fine right now, in fact it's heaps of fun, imho. Like everyone else I guess I'll just sleep a little easier knowing I'm working against a nicely polished, stable 1.0 ... even if it doesn't have the latest and greatest upstream features...
Thanks again,
~ol
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