Hi,
just one very quick and possibly stupid idea. How about getting rid of the 0 version prefix and calling the next release 1.0? This would be just numbering change, not some milestone based on features that have to be implemented (similarly to renumbering linux kernel from 2.6.x to 3.0).
Rationale: the 0.xx versioning scheme makes an impression that Geany is something very unstable that crashes every five minutes and whose first release was made a few months back. Instead, Geany is a very stable and reliable editor with lots of features and several years of history.
I know there are some 1.0 TODOs here:
http://www.geany.org/Documentation/ToDo
like the ABI stability for plugins and other features. But
1. Will the ABI be ever considered stable? Is it really needed? (All the plugins I know are open source and the combined plugin project is kept in sync with the development release so there's no real problem even if the API changes).
2. I think there's no need to require some specific features for the 1.0 release. The current set of features makes already a very good editor and extra features can always be introduced in later versions.
I already find Geany more usable for my needs than editors having 2011 as their version number so I believe it deserves the 1 prefix. What is your opinion?
Cheers, Jiri