Hi,
This mail can lead to all sorts of flamewars, hunting with pitchforks etc., but what the hell... :)
Don't know for you, but to me Inkscape seems to be inside the <1.0 loop forever, whereas people all around effectively use it for solving Real Life (C)(R)(tm) tasks. Yes, it is unbearably slow, it cannot work as a standalone prepress tool and so on and so forth. Nevertheless, it's real tool, not toy. That is, in a way the current <1.0 versioning quite misrepresents Inkscape and its features. Lately Hugin (which is a panorama making tool) project adopted the YEAR.EVEN/ODD versioning scheme. Should we probably discuss whether we need something like that?
This would be another way to deal with the roadmap that we don't really follow anyway.
/me ducks
Alexandre