OpenCart v1.5.0 RC1

Xsecrets wrote:If you look at what's changed I think you'll agree that 1.5.0 is MUCH more than a simple point release. Yes it probably should have been called 2.0, but that's irrelevant. If you want to see how long a true point release takes to come out look at at the 1.4.9 series. The times are much more reasonable. I would say that 1.5 is more like whatever the next version of zen everyone has been waiting on for years now, and certainly much more than the minor changes that oscommerce just got after what 4 years?

Herein lies one of the big problems. You've got Daniel making statements that 1.5 is only "10%" different from 1.4, then you've got people like yourself saying it should have been V2.0 because it's radically different. It's this kind of communication that just confuses people.

arch72 is right - no roadmap or predictable schedule is the biggest problem with OC. When i was monitoring beta releases for PS, they were doing Release Candidate point releases for their 1.4 version every week, you could see all the bugs fixed in a given RC. And many people just went ahead and started using 4th or 5th RC release for their store fronts.

With OC, you are always dependent on whatever free time the developers have. No visibility into the state of things. I'll be happy to donate, but if you are building this product in the adhoc manner, I'll look elsewhere.