Hi Mark, curious why you want to bump the version number to 2.0 instead of leaving it at 1.20? Won't that confuse people?
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Note, people get confused by the 1.19 is greater than 1.9 thing all the time. Personally I think this will result in less confusion
I've heard folks say that but never actually encountered anyone getting confused by it. Maybe it's because I'm dealing with system administrators and other folks who install software on a regular basis (that would be the target audience of the tarballs anyway right?). Releasing MediaWiki 2.0 which is actually MediaWiki version 1.20 on the other hand seems pretty confusing...
I'm not sure why 2.0 would be anything but 2.0. There would be no 1.20.