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by mplewis 3843 days ago
Isn't this served by doing a pre-release? Tell people they're free to use a pre-release, but it's not guaranteed to be stable. Once you're confident it's a reliable version, bump it to stable.

esp-link (https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link/releases) does a great job of this. They tell you which features are in latest'n'greatest so you can try them if you wish.
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jpollock 3843 days ago
The decision to make a software release public is (like the version number) a decision for the marketing and sales teams to make.

The software developer's job is to attack the features in priority order (hopefully defined by sales revenue estimates), and make sure the software is (reasonably) always releasable.

After that, it's a risk/reward, each new feature pulls in new bugs. Does the increased functionality offset the cost due to upgrade and stabilization?

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