version number creates wrong impression

[ThomasWaldmann]

Would you trust your data to a version 0.x software? ;)

I think the version number should get a significant increase as it doesn't reflect the quality, capability and that it is in development (and I suspect also in usage) since about 5 years. I also didn't see any major malfunctions.

So, how about something like 0.99 or 1.0.0 beta/rc?

[anarcat]

i think that's a great idea. however the reality of it is that Jonas is developing this in his free time, and that just got cut down dramatically (see this recent post for context). Jonas has also fairly explicitly stated that this is a personal project that he maintains in his free time (see also this comment) and since he's the sole maintainer of the project right now, it makes me somewhat concerned over the viability of the project, even though I use it for my personal backups and we are testing it at work.

[ThomasWaldmann]

Yes, increasing the "bus factor" would be a good thing. That said, this is much less an issue for FOSS projects (compared to closed-source or non-free projects) - esp. if you use a DVCS system.

As long as people are interested in the code and capable of working with it, it will live on.

BTW, I did some researches on the web and on twitter. People are really impressed and happy users AFAICS.

[anarcat]

see #217 for the bus factor discussion, which should probably be separate. :)

i also have heard generally good things about attic, although I am a bit worried about cache, performance and consistency issues. i have had one report of a friend that has its cache regenerated at each run, which makes backups slower than they should be. there were also reports of backup time increasing linearly with time here and here. there's also #102 for performance. i am also worried about various python exceptions that are documented in the issue queue (#163, #205, #196, #161, #139 and more)...

i guess a cleanup of the queue would be in order before such a release, because there seems to be a lot of unconfirmed issues in the above list.