On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Marcel Jamin via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> I guess the question then becomes why bitcoin still is <1.0.0
>

I've said the same thing years ago.  Originally the "1.0" was a target for
whenever "client mode" as planned by Satoshi was implemented, making the
Bitcoin Core implementation feature-complete for as a minimum
working/viable project.

Ultimately it is not so important and tends to generate a lot of discussion
 - so maybe we should just do the emacs thing and go from 0.12 to 12.0 for
next version.