> Having a nifty new software version with potential bugs is not unique to > our > software project. Let's do what other projects do: say "Here's the new > version. It's in beta. It has a lot of new features, but may have new > bugs. Please test". That way we're not releasing with a known nasty bug, > but we're not shutting off access to an already wildly improved next > release.
What would be point of that? Do we absolutely have to do a release? Just wait a month to test Matt's new code and release it then. It's either a RELEASE or it's BETA. It's not the worst thing to happen to a project to have to delay a release because of a known bug.